Word: styles
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...hates the Russians as bloody oppressors.* And instead of clear weather and frozen lakes, Joe Stalin's forces found themselves fighting in a blinding blizzard, which grounded aviation, smashed tanks against half-concealed boulders and granite tank barriers, and gave to the Finns, who fight guerrilla-style in small units, with short, light machine guns and short, razor-edged knives, an almost even break. By the end of the second week of the war the Russians, who had thought they were starting a Blitzkrieg, were still hammering desperately at the Mannerheim defenses in Karelia, while in the north...
Many bands either drag when they try it, or think that the nervous excitement resulting from the "stiff" drive style is better. Goodman used to think so, and things like "Sing, Sing, Sing" resulted. But people soon tire of the constant pound of the style and grow sick of the dearth of ideas in the music. So Goodman is trying to shift his band to the other style. Whether he will succeed is a moot question...
...think "lag" style can be found by pounding ahead in four-four drive. Just the opposite results. And if your are going to be successful, you must have a band that plays in the "same hag"; in other words, plays as a unit the same amount behind the beat. That's why all new bands, bands of all-stars, bands mixing two beat and four beat men are bad. You can't have a mixture of ideas about the "proper lag" and get the swing. For unity, a really good swing band must make a football team look like...
...yard medley relay will be Crosby Keller '38, backstroke, Greg Jameson '37, HARVARD's greatest breastroker, and probably Don Barker '38, one of the best 50-yard men Ulen over developed. The Varsity will enter Dick Harris, Jack Waldron, and Nod Goldwasser. The 220 free-style will find Frank Coloman '38, formerly a five-minute quarter-miler, and Bert Howell '36 opposing the extremely dangerous combination of Varsity Captain Erie Cutler and Frannie powers...
...final 200-yard free-style relay may have almost anyone in it. But if the meet is close Coach Ulen will pit Powers, Bosworth, Curwen, and Stearns against the Alumni quartet...