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...such things usually do, it began on Manhattan's 52nd Street. A bandleader named John ("Dizzy") Gillespie, "looking for a way to emphasize the more beautiful notes in swing," explained: "When you hum it, you just naturally say 'bebop, be-de-bop.' " What be-bop amounts to: hot jazz overheated, with overdone lyrics full of bawdiness, references to narcotics, and doubletalk...
...second year at Groton School. "Perhaps I had wrapped something in toilet paper when I was packing." Whatever the cause, the dart stuck. Throughout the day the inspired bully developed it "through Bumwad Inky to Bumptink to Bump, and finally to the chef d'oeuvre of his career - Bop. ... I fought him and was licked, that evening and several times more in the next few days. It was too late then. I was Bop. ... I had joined the outcasts...
Like many another schoolboy outcast, flop-footed, inky-fingered "Bop" La Farge plugged his dogged way out of pariahdom. In his third year he tackled another bully, finished him off with an astonished "30 seconds of deliriously swinging one haymaker after another." In the Fourth Form he was a star high-jumper despite heckling classmates who chanted "Bop-Bop-Bop" at the side of the jumping pit. By graduation he had attained respectability with the kudos of a letterman in both football and crew...
...Harvard ink-stained young La Farge lost his nickname at last, was president of the highbrow Advocate and edited the lusty Lampoon. When he was 28 his first novel won the Pulitzer Prize. But the name "Bop" still haunted him. It was not until he was 36 that a "woman of unusual quality, great perception and remorseless persistence" forced the hated word across his unwilling lips. "Then," he writes, "and only then, I ceased to be afraid, and then at last I slew the Groton...