Word: aping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Genetics, one perceives a great uneasiness that maybe all this knowledge is a bad thing, that man is necessarily being forced into a moral dilemma. Being a rationalist, I cannot believe that it is better to be an ostrich than to be the thing that most distinguishes man from ape, a seeker after knowledge for the sake of itself. Misuse of knowledge results from ignorance. To believe otherwise is to believe that being out of contact with reality is less likely to lead to bad effects than is sanity. If man fails the evolutionary test, it will be because...
Listen to Flash Gordon's Ape, or Beatle Bones 'n Smokin Stones which had the distinction of annoying both groups (the Beatles aren't dead and the Stones don't smoke...
...bands-Count Basie v. Stan Kenton-in a Detroit hotel 15 years ago. Thad was a trumpeter with Basie, Mel the drummer behind Kenton's brassy behemoth. They both might be forgiven any nostalgia they cared to indulge in. Neither of them cares to. They would no more ape Woody Herman or Tommy Dorsey than sit behind monogrammed music stands. Besides, yesterday's big-band era was all about dancing. Today's audience does not dance: it listens. Thad, Mel & Co. hold their fans' attention with a blend of instrumental voices as tightly woven as Kenton...
...than the motorcycle? In the 17 years since Stanley Kramer put Marlon Brando astride a Triumph in The Wild One, big bikes and those who ride them have been made into apocalyptic images of aggression and revolt -Greasy Rider on an iron horse with 74-cu.-in. lungs and ape-hanger bars, booming down the freeway to rape John Doe's daughter behind the white clapboard bank: swastikas, burnt rubber, crab lice and filthy denim. It has long been obvious that the bike was heir to the cowboy's horse in movies; but if Trigger had been loaded...
Then Hoover turned to the Black Panther Party, warning that the newly opened Panther office in Algiers was a symbol of growing ties between the radical group and Arab terrorists. Hoover added that "militants may seek to ape Arab tactics, including airplane hijackings, to gain release of jailed Panther members...