Word: seemly
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that his band "has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile." There is no doubt as to the tradition, for Whiteman has led the pack for nearly 20 years and nearly every white jazzist of any consequence has at one time or another been a member of his orchestra. As to his present organization it is true that his weekly radio program is very poor but that is due to the fact that the sponsors insist on a lot of so-called comedy, windy advertising and entirely too much vocalizing. When the orchestra is allowed...
Your account of the recent award of scholarships given by the American Academy in Rome [TIME, May 27] is even more disappointing than your report of the same event in previous years. You seem to imply that to Mr. Eugene Savage belongs most of the credit for the splendid record of the Yale School of Fine Arts during the past years. Mr. Savage, I believe, would be the first person to deny this. As Leffmgwell Professor of Painting his influence reaches only a small section of the Yale Art School. He has nothing to do with the instruction in architecture...
...roadhouse and plastic surgery for purposes of disguise. These details. however, for cinemaddicts who find the current school of underworld melodrama the most exciting furnished by the cinema in the past three years, will merely serve to emphasize the obvious fact that a picture written to a pattern can seem all the more alive, original and exciting if the writing is well done and the pattern sound...
Jazz fans, many of whom would not call Noble's slick music jazz at all, will haggle endlessly in defense of their favorite orchestras. Among famed dance bands, Paul Whiteman's has the richest tradition but his performances now seem sterile. Leo Reisman, another pioneer, is on the wane. The Lombardo band persists in "flabbing" but the public likes it. Two years ago dancing collegians turned to the stomping Casa Lomas. But with success the Casa Lomas are more & more mechanical. The Vallée band plays just as it always has, but Conductor Rudy has proved...
...just estimate of the conclusion reached by the Committee and the Corporation would seem to be not that it has deprived the University or the public of a valuable right, but that it has made a positive contribution to both. The possibility of developing through experiment tasteful adaptations of the Harvard Arms to a variety of uses for which the Seal, even if it were legal, would be inappropriate, is one that may well commend itself to the students and the Alumni of the University. It is to be hoped that with the exhaustion within a year of the stocks...