Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this ambitious target in 1959, it will take its place among the new miracles of People's China - alongside the 330-lb. sweet potato and a marvelous plant that allegedly grows tomatoes above ground and potatoes below. But of all the wonders boasted by Red China, none can beat the economic snafu created by Peking's planners in the past year...
Among several case histories, Dr. Bontzolakis described a man of 57 who complained of dizziness, headaches and leg cramps. He had an enlarged heart with irregular beat, blood pressure of 250/130. Within six weeks, on reserpine, he improved (no headaches, less dizziness) and gave up abstractionism for expressionism. The doctor pushed the treatment: the heartbeat became regular, blood pressure dropped to 160/100, and the leg pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened...
...with the horn-rimmed glasses and a grey-flecked crew-cut walks up to the bar and acts like the squarest square from Endsville. He orders milk. But from the Red Garter to the Purple Onion, not an eyebrow lifts. Everyone knows that on matters that count-a beat and a lyric-Columnist Ralph Gleason. 42, has a taste so cool that he turns out much of the solid reporting and comment on the convoluted world of jazz...
...Fitzgerald could win the mile run, although he will have to beat Cornell's Chuck Hill to do it. If Sandy Dodge's leg holds out, he is the equal of everyone in the dash except Yale's Steve Snyder...
...Haunted Palace, by Frances Winwar. The beat degeneration and high talent of Poe make for a fine biography...