Word: aforethought
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Rock 'n' roll is based on Negro blues, but in a self-conscious style which underlines the primitive qualities of the blues with malice, aforethought. Characteristics: an unrelenting, socking syncopation that sounds like a bull whip; a choleric saxophone honking mating-call sounds; an electric guitar turned up so loud that its sound shatters and splits; a vocal group that shudders and exercises violently to the beat while roughly chanting either a near-nonsense phrase or a moronic lyric in hillbilly idiom...
With mischief aforethought, Colorado Springs's Free Press sent sketches of the projected Air Force Academy (TIME, May 23) to cantankerous old (85) Architectitan Frank Lloyd Wright, asked him for his comments. Replied Wright: "[It looks to me] as if another factory had moved in where it should not be. [It] will probably be known as Talbott's Aviary, or, more realistically, a factory for birdmen." Then Wright, suggesting that sketches of the Academy's controversial, spare-ribbed chapel be studied for ten years and then thrown away, lowered a cantilevered boom on his Chicago competition: "When...
...Malice Aforethought. In Tulsa, after burglars cracked his safe, took $600 and left their tools at the scene of the crime, Bowling Alley Owner Ted Sieler got a $16 due bill for the hardware, which the crooks had charged in his name at Sears, Roebuck...
ALABAMA With Malice Aforethought...
Alabama cops arrested their first suspects next day. One was Horn, 39-year-old pastor of three Baptist churches. The other was Claude Luker, an owner of a Talladega furniture store-and of the maroon Chevrolet. The charge: murder "with malice aforethought." Police later picked up Louis Harrison, Cyclops of the Pell City Klan and athletic director of the big Avondale textile mills. He gave cops a list of members in his Klavern. This time it looked as if the Klan might not get away with its reign of terror...