Word: soule
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Such was the Lewis keynote: that men like himself suffer burning soul-frustration in the U. S., where "criticism ... is a chill activity pursued by jealous spinsters, former baseball reporters [i. e. Heywood Broun], and acid professors. . . . Our American professors like their literature clear, cold, pure and very dead...
Beethoven's Adelaide by Baritone Heinrich Schlusnus (Brunswick, $1.50)-A foremost lieder singer displays his fine phrasing, his immaculate diction. Sing Something Simple and Happy Feet (Victor)-The Revelers again get the effects of a full-piece band. Body and Soul and With a Song in My Heart by Jack Hylton and his orchestra (Victor, $1.25)-A famed British jazzman embroiders neat concert versions of two deserving songs. Dance Records: You're Lucky to Me and Memories of You (Okeh)-For those who like hot jazz with husky singing, husky trumpets. The band is Louis Armstrong...
...slashes the neck with his long knife, wets his fingers in the spurting blood and tastes it. Actually headhunters often become too enthusiastic, turn the ceremony into a free-for-all. Head-taking, like scalping among American Indians, adds war-glory to the individual warrior. In addition, heads bring soul-stuff into the tribe, which benefits everyone by increasing crops, making women and cattle more prolific, driving away pestilence...
...Vagabond has often been wondering, of late, to just what sad end this world is coming. He is by nature a peaceful and optimistic soul, and the machinations of Hitlers and Mussolinis on the other side of the Atlantic at times fill him with a real uneasiness. He views the flag-waving Nationalist and his works with alarm, and has often wondered at the strange course taken by the ship of state when under the influence of popular jingoism...
...lavishly extolled the genius of Toscanini in terms applicable to any great conductor, perhaps even to Stokowski himself. Excerpt: "The melodic line he molds just as a sculptor molds in soft clay the forms appearing under his fingers. . . . His originality of conception comes from his expressing the essence and soul of the score instead of merely the literal notes. ... It is the divine fire in him which elevates all he expresses through tone, so that one knows that at that moment music is being created which through its vitality, rich color, plastic form, pulsating rhythm brings us a vision...