Word: swing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Along New York's Swing Lane (sand Street), where nightclubs in sorry brownstones crowd each other like bums on a breadline, an era was all but over. Swing was still there, but it was more hips than horns. Barrelhouse had declined. Burlesque was back...
...fewer than five clubs had gone in for a touch of Minsky. In place of swing bands they had installed knockabout comedians in baggy pants, and strip-teasers in net brassieres. The town hadn't seen so many strippers since 1942, when Fiorello LaGuardia sent them packing...
There was little jazz left on 52nd Street. Even the customers had changed. There were fewer crew haircuts, pipes and sports jackets; more bald spots, cigars and paunches. Said an old swing musician : "It was a pretty rugged street to start off with and you couldn't hurt it much. But it's lost its charm...
...attempt to keep that promise turned out to be far more difficult, exciting-and welcome-than the innocent simplicity of 1923 foretold. Before the quarter-century was done, TIME had tried to comprehend and convey the color, drama and meaning of such far-flung complexities as gangsterism, Franz Kafka, swing music, fancy funerals, Wallis Simpson, Marxism, aerial warfare, soap operas, Arnold Toynbee,* Barbara Hutton, the British spirit, Theodore Bilbo, Chen Li-fu, the Townsend Plan, Suzanne Lenglen, currency devaluation, Aldous Huxley, atomic fission, Jimmy Walker and the Supreme Court...
...scholars to its faculty. Impressed by his ability as an administrator, Robert Hutchins wrote him: "I once used to think of you as a major prophet. Now, I am inclined to think you are the daring young man on the flying trapeze." Last week, the trapeze was slowing its swing. At 69, Isaiah Bowman decided that it was time for him to retire...