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> The hummingbird when in love sways back & forth like a pendulum attached to an invisible wire, in an arc of some twelve feet, and makes a sound "like a bow drawn across cello strings."
War notwithstanding, in Paris last week Père Jousse made ready to resume at the Sorbonne his course in rhythmocatechism. Its title: Les Rhytlimes Formulaires de I'Apocalypse d'Ezdras et le Style Oral Palestinien. Père Jousse's first enrolée was his...
Story of a girl who sways a murder-trial jury (TIME, July 24), Ladies and Gentlemen is least feeble during its comedy scenes, when it tweaks the noses of various goofy jurors. As for its love scenes, two people in love may use baby talk, speak in code, communicate through...
The stunt on which Color Flight is based -making visual equivalents of sounds- is familiar to art students, who often take sketch pads to concerts and try to "draw" the music. Hollywood has lately caught on, and An Optical Poem by Artist Oskar Fischinger, a visual translation of Liszt'...
Said her father, a Manhattan postal clerk: "Evelyn's a good kid. She swings and sways like nobody's business. I hope she pleased the King and Queen."