Word: rhythmics
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...rhythmic clip-clop of hoofs tapping down Roosevelt Raceway's brown half-mile oval was smothered by a swelling roar from the stands as the six-horse field came into the final turn. With less than a quarter-mile to go, a fast-stepping brown mare named Proximity, unbeaten in her five starts this year, had not made a move out of her third-place rut along the rail...
...based on traditional harmony. It also had a quiet, respectful, lyric feeling, expressed in almost Brahmsian lengths of line. It was purposeful and direct. If Symphony No. i fell short of any of its composer's professed aims, it was in its lack of variety, either harmonic or rhythmic. Even so, grinning Composer Bergsma, sitting in the audience with his young wife "Nickie " got a nice, appreciative hand of applause for a well-made and well-intentioned first symphony...
...Queen's daughters at her birthday party, Tupper sent the lines by return mail. His practice of sending poems to the newspapers was not mere exhibitionism. It was also public relations for his magnum opus, Proverbial Philosophy, a galaxy of truisms dressed up in a slipslop rhythmic prose...
Insistent in adult ears, the rhythmic tick-tick-tick of jump ropes sounded last week across the land. From Atlanta to San Francisco, from Boston to Dallas, the shrill chant of little-girl voices made loud the early morning's quiet and the twilight's repose. To the irascible, the runes sounded much as ever, but a careful listener could detect differences. In Dallas, little girls chanted...
David Fredenthal's Great Fugue was a rhythmic evocation of Conductor Arturo Toscanini in action, and of the music he draws forth. Fredenthal had spent hours in an NBC radio engineer's booth, watching the great man conduct orchestra rehearsals. Toscanini moved too fast to catch in an orthodox sketch, so Fredenthal made multiple-image sketches that recorded a number of recurrent gestures simultaneously. The resulting watercolor bore some relation to Marcel Duchamp's famed Nude Descending a Staircase and some to Gjon Mili's stroboscopic photographs. It had more warmth than either...