Word: tempo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What makes "Alexander's Ragtime Band" an outstanding and in places a profound production is the music. Mr. Berlin's succession of song hits reflect America's changing taste and changing tempo. They are presented here in chronological order, and the history of "jazz" is traced from its noisy pre-war origins, down to the sophisticated swing of today. Happiness, pathos, sentimentality, escapism, the emotions that characterized the years are all there, woven into a curious unity by a composer who has always written for the rank and file. It is pleasant to record that since the picture was first...
Louise, Louise (Bob Crosby; Decca). Blues in cold sorgum tempo, with a fine corn pone vocal by Southerner Eddie Miller...
...five have been promoted. Mike Cohen, 185-pound bucking back and a fine defensive player, was taken up to increase the tempo of the fight between him and Smith, 188-pounder, for the bucking berth. Two Sophomore tackles, Tom Healey, 200-pound baseball pitcher, at left tackle, and Mose Hallett, 188-pound right tackle, have both been upped. As Ken Booth has his eye on 60 minutes of play in all the games, Hallett's chances do not appear too bright...
...series, A World I Never Made, told of Jim O'Neill, a goodhearted, leather-faced teamster, and his shrill, shapeless, ill-natured wife Lizz. It broke off when the O'Neills collected $1,000 after their son was run over. Written in the same slow tempo as Farrell's earlier works, with characters who were fatuous when they were not brutal, it gave an even more dispiriting picture of a sodden, sullen, sick environment, revealed no new facet of either Farrell's talent or of the life of the neighborhood...
...present Mexican Constitution and of the Mexican Agrarian Law adopted in the same year. In Russia, by the end of 1917 the peasants had already seized most of the land, and by 1934 the Stalin dictatorship had marshaled 90% of the peasantry on collective farms. In Mexico, the tempo has been much slower. Up to 1934, the year in which Lázaro Cárdenas became President, land given to Mexican peons (the previous owners were paid in Mexican bonds which have steadily declined) totaled only 20,132,180 acres, about 1,200,000 acres per year. President...