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...unenlightened reader toward hot music. To learn to appreciate it, one must hear it, and under proper circumstances. The commonest method, of course, is to spend a year of discipleship under a Glenn Miller until the realization dawns that the acme of musical perfection in the four-beat tempo is hardly a deliciously impeccable saxophone section. But potentially there are other ways of putting jazz in a more satisfactory light with the general public, particularly through the medium of the theatre and the screen...
Professor Bruner found that from 1930 to 1940 there was a vast tinkering with curriculums, but 85% of the courses of study still are out of step with "the rapid tempo of present-day society." Findings...
...most part he had only such dubious suggestions to make as that 100 more fighting planes would have turned the tide in Greece, and only such vague conclusions to draw as: "It is evident that in strategy there has been on our side no adjustment to the tempo or to the resources of the enemy. . . . I deem it my duty to warn the country that it is only by handling our problems with greater vigor and imagination that we can obtain victory...
Labor Minister Ernest Bevin admitted: "We are behind with our airdromes and some of our factories." Onetime War Secretary Leslie Hore-Belisha, who would undoubtedly like to be Prime Minister himself, declared: "Productivity in factories and docks is falling at an alarming rate. . . . The tempo of our effort cannot be considered adequate when five months have to elapse between the fire of London and the outlining of a scheme for the coordination of the fire brigades...
Daniel Saw the Stone (The Golden Gate Quartet; Okeh). The sort of exciting harmony and tempo usually heard only from colored spiritual singers in the remote Southeastern backwoods, and not in Manhattan nightclubs-where, it so happens, the Golden Gate Quartet does sing...