Word: begat
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of the trends beneath the headlines may seem frivolous, but they bear watching as part of life in a modern world. As Music reports this week, all Christendom has lately learned that rock 'n' roll begat what Englishmen call "the beat," and the beat begat the Beatles. But not so many people outside the territory of some astute British journals realize that rock-turned-beat has actually had a salutary effect on some of the toughest juveniles in England, turning them away from delinquency and toward something that Music describes as "better than beating up old ladies...
...musical metamorphosis of Merseyside is only one of the wonders rock 'n' roll has worked in England. As all Christendom has learned, rock also begat what Englishmen call "the beat," and the beat begat the Beatles. The Beatles are all old Merseyside types, and only a few million dollars ago they were trooping around the rock clubs there, playing for carfare like everyone else. Now they have become such a crucial factor in English life that conservative candidates have been officially cautioned not to omit some friendly word for them from their speeches, and the Queen has expressed...
Actually, the first crack in the dam was when Lester ("Pres") Young introduced a new school of vibratoless tone and long, extended solo lines. Young was Hawkins' strongest challenger, and it was Pres who begat Getz and the cool school. Most musicians consider Hawkins and Young the two great tenor influences...
...chats in which the aged Lord Stoke, who cultivates a deafness of convenience, Mrs. Morland, the giddy novelist, and various gentle-born friends agree that the bishopess (always absent) is a pill. Gradually, as the Barsetshire books piled up, nearly everyone of note in the county appeared, married and begat (hardly anyone died), and Storyteller Thirkell confessed that for the life of her she could not keep track of all the children...
...that turns eventually into a hope opera. Will the Sanhedrin succeed in its plot against the Nazarene? The outcome actually seems uncertain most of the time. Despite occasional effective scenes-such as Christ's Palm Sunday entry into Jerusalem-the scenario is often less lively than the begat-begat-begat chapters of Genesis. "Living tableaux" of scenes from the Old Testament contribute little but an impression of so many Bavarian countryfolk assembling for a photograph in Biblical costume...