Word: rhythms
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Beaded Sweat. His work was a triumph of the will. At his best, he wrote with an audacious, staccato directness which permanently altered the rhythm and content of American fiction. The core of that achievement is the self-explanatory novella, Maggie: A Girl of the Streets, a Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage, and a handful of poems and stories, notably The Open Boat, The Blue Hotel and The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky. Written when Crane was 22, The Red Badge was a brilliantly intuitive study of war and the emotions of men in combat...
...current enthusiasms, which he was teaching to dignified Florentines last week: a revival of the Charleston. Says Bruno: "The Charleston has a simple rhythm which Italians like...
...tell the story of the astigmatic golfer. The house laughed, and Dr. Perkins blushed slightly, but laughed too. He hit four tentative chords, a phone started ringing outside the dining room door, and Carmichael drummed on the piano with his left hand. "Answer the phone," he said, in rhythm...
...jump. For the better part of an hour, worried Norma played nursemaid (ice baths, salve, liniment and heavy wrappings) to Country Boy's bruised left fetlock. Such concern was only common sense to Norma: "After all, the horse is 60% of my success." Her own 40% contribution is "rhythm" and "getting to know" Country Boy, plus 22 years of riding experience in a 27-year lifetime. Norma prefers geldings for a very sound reason: "They haven't anything else on their minds. It makes them honest jumpers...
Pittsburgh-born Enroll Garner, playing trademark tunes such as When Johnny Comes Marching Home and My Heart Stood Still, displays a lot of chordy harmonic curiosity, with occasional lapses into his running-waterfall style. Bumptious Joe Bushkin, the flashiest current craze (see above), plays with steadier rhythm and a harder, right-handed riffing style. The only woman in the list so far, Dardanelle (Breckenridge), shows a light, teasing touch, articulate phrasing. Ralph Sutton, a favorite at Greenwich Village's Eddie Condon's, bumps out Ain't Mishavin', Muskat Ramble and Deep Henderson in two-beat...