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...crew in & around Greenwich Village and recorded his first oldtime jazz in more than ten years. Exchanging his tux for shirt sleeves and slacks, Drummer Krupa, who had his first taste of jazz from Louis Armstrong and the New Orleans Rhythm Kings back in the '20s, said with a big grin, "It's my first love. It's kicks...
...Overshadow. In the '20s the avant-garde poets wanted to revolutionize the language and in the '30s to revolutionize the world. In the anxious and expensive '40s, they have largely felt obliged to try for tenure in the English departments of U.S. colleges. Of the 15 poets in this book, more than half are teachers or have recently been teaching-a fact their verse betrays with retributive accuracy. Most of their poems read like the result, not of getting involved willy-nilly in the life of man, but of a careful, cultivated and eminently correct genuflection before...
...early 20s, Nelson started packaging a pinch of vrilium inside an ordinary two-inch-long brass cylinder. Popularly called "The Magic Spike," the cartridge was sold to people suffering from a variety of painful diseases. Nelson was always happy to explain how it worked: when the cylinder was attached to the lapel (or hung around the neck), there were "emanations" into the atmosphere for a distance of 20 feet, discouraging all sorts of disease germs. Meanwhile, the vrilium was supposed to "emanate" inward, restoring the buyer's sick body cells to normal...
...reviews of The Cocktail Party have amused me a little, as it seems that many New York intellectuals are still languishing in the negativism of the '20s and lagging well behind the simpler but wiser ordinary folk who crowd the theater to see and understand...
...shorter, as much as 16 in. from the ground. Padded hips were out; gone, too, were the waist corsets and many of the other foolish furbelows which had come in with the New Look. In some collections, like Balmain's, there was a nostalgic look of the '20s. The trend was to more simplicity. The object, said one designer, was "not to astonish but to please...