Word: soul
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Disc-ussing: Commodore has put out some very fine records lately, among them a solo by Jess Stacy, who gets all to few opportunities to show what excellent piano he can play. Also recommended highly is "Body and Soul" with Chu Berry (tenor sax) and Roy Eldridge (trumpet). Only trouble with the record is that "Stardust," on the other side, has some of the worst recording this reviewer has ever heard. The turn-table on the recorder was varying so badly when the record was made that it changes key about every thirty seconds ... Listen to the first chorus...
...with a carillon, an authentic Russian Zvon from Moscow. And with the Zvon came Saradjeff, the official Zvonar from the Soviet Government, commissioned to ring the Zvon and impart his knowledge to the barbarians of Harvard. All would have been well if Saradjeff bad not had a sensitive Russian Soul, unaccustomed to the complex chaos of America. To this chaos was added the horrible fact that few Americans spoke Russian and Saradjeff spoke no English...
Particularly at a winter sports carnival, ostensibly to glorify the Healthy Body and Soul, is the bottle an unwanted visitor. As Professor Hisaw maintains, "In any display of athletic prowess, the neural pathways must be kept clear from the effects of alcohol." An examination of complete skiing records shows that no skiing championship has ever been won by an intoxicated...
...Seeing the heart of the problem, John Jay Chapman wrote in 1924: "College loyalty is the only religion the schoolboy knows. . . . And this religious idea is kept alive in him by the vision of the ultimate college examinations--the Clashing Rocks through which he must pass to save his soul alive. . . . Thus an enormous moral pressure is put on him to make him do an intelligent thing--and this on an urchin who has never been taught to use his mind." He and others shuddered at the mania for size which had seized the wealthier schools, the turning of headmasters...
Harvard, the Vagabond reflected belligerently, as he gambolled down the steps of Widener, had no soul. Vag was in one of those devil-may-care moods which always scize him, to the detriment of his marks and the anguish of his tutor, just before examinations...