Word: limb
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...effect and picturization rather than spontaneous expression. But probably what makes old-style ballet so sterile is the fact that this is primarily not a dancing age: that is, it is an age in which one dances not to express emotion, but for recreation. The motions of the human limb per se do not have aesthetic meaning for us. So that there is something a trifle anomalous in the sight of the Russian ballerina pirouetting and pointing, performing entrechats and arabesques in many a graceful convolution, all to sketch out some ethereal emotion which might better be conveyed...
...George is a very sincere guy and has done an awful lot--more than most of us realize--to promote interest in good jazz music, particularly around these parts. But every so often he puts himself out on a limb with some childish statement like the above: and an apology generally results a few months later. For instance, a while back George had some rather disparaging remarks to make about The One Inimitable Band Around Today, for which he subsequently apologized. Now that's all fine, as one seldom sees such downright honesty in a critic. However, it seems...
...Harvard Willkie Club, for instance, went out on a limb for the G.O.P. yesterday, predicting 295 electoral votes as the likely total that would fall on their side of the ledger...
...Harvard Roosevelt Club, on the other hand, went even farther out on a limb, placing its estimate as between 325 to 350 for the Third Term...
...doctor, and they treated their sick with charms: sugar blown into babies' eyes to cure them of ophthalmia, haddock fin bones to ward off rheumatism, burned nail parings to drive away sea boils. A scratch with a fish hook often meant infection and the loss of a limb...