Word: stirrings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Illuminating as these figures may be to some people, it is impossible that they will cause any stir in the world of levity, except as new grist for the laugh mill. Even the awe-inspiring news that tuberculosis takes a large roll of gentlemen graduated from college funny papers will not act as a sedative. Caps will continue to hob and bills to iiugle in the face of overwhelming numbers. After all, is the conforming reflection, these statistics prove exactly what most statistics prove...
...their first performance, and it is due to the ardent championing of these men that the Habima has survived the troubled days of the Revolution, and is now able to offer to Boston the astounding perfection of dramatic art which is its and which has caused such a stir in all the capitals of Europe and in New York...
Daily he spent hours with a Japanese sculptor, and later with a Japanese musician. To the one Paul Claudel tried to describe the strange forms and shapes that stir in his mind. To the other he talked of tones and tunes never perhaps to be heard. The sculptor and the musician did the best they could; and, it is said, eased somewhat Paul Claudel's thirst to create, even in mediums where his keen mind tells him that he has neither talent nor skill...
...sustaining tone analogous to the bass drum, the umbrellas in the front rows, together with hats, skirts, wigs of the favorably as well as the unfavorably disposed, were whisked out of repose into strange embarrassments. The "Trenton Tough" thereupon faced his sustaining tone in the other direction, proceeded to stir the audience almost to apoplexy with sound alone. He says: "I have tried [in the "Ballet Mécanique"] to express America's tremendous power and energy without writing it in terms of jazz." Composer Antheil, first to propagate a serious appreciation of jazz in Germany, believes...
...excited awe in both sexes of human kind. Not Aesop's mouse who gnawed a lion free; not the three blind mice whom the farmer's spouse decaudated; not the clock-scaling mouse of Mother Goose nor Alice's dormouse nor the mouse that did not stir the night before Christmas nor even Ignatz Mouse* himself, have histories to compare with the lemmings', who date back to Norse mythology and further; back to Miocene days when lemmings periodically migrated from the Scandinavian peninsula to another continent, perhaps lost Atlantis, by land routes which no longer exist...