Word: vivisect
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...jazz is on the way to becoming respectable. That it is more than an imagined menace to conservatism is evidenced by the fact that it is being talked about by those who are usually reticent concerning fads and fancies. Mr. Wahio Frank has stopped analyzing America long enough to vivisect this latest of arts, in the New Republic. His criticism is more sapient than the average bombast against innovations, because it has a universal concept as its base Mr. Frank argues that while jazz may be folk art, such qualification does not grant it a halo a priori. "There...