Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California, and changed the characters to modern types. None of these types is original. Most of them, oddly enough, are very funny. The hero is portrayed as the sort of healthy youth who hung around with Superboy in the halcyon days of Superman D.C. publications; his friend becomes a bop musician temporarily without an instrument; the footman becomes one of those stereotyped Mexicans, all sombrero and somnolence; and so on. Joel Crothers, Joel Henning, and Al Graubard, respectively, play these roles, and Caroline Cross is the heroine. What they lack in finesse (a good deal, for some of them), they...
Painful to Remember. Tempers grew so hot in the Diet that brisk fighting broke out though members themselves stayed out of the line of fire while they sent forth their male secretaries to bop one another with chairs and lunch boxes. Socialists, stirring up the ruckus inside the Diet and labor leaders calling a general strike outside it, were, said Kishi, threatening the parliamentary democracy "which you claim to cherish." But they were not the only opponents of the bill. Throughout Japan last week, responsible men and women with vivid memories of the days when the police could arrest...
...Jordan meets other Phoenix Islanders, she begins to feel that only the sun, sea and sand qualify as neither phony nor vicious. There is a Beat Generation bop-talker who tries to soft-sell Jordan on a cool love affair. There is a native Neanderthal man who tries to pin Jordan to the floorboards of the half-built ginmill in which he hopes to mulct the summer trade. There are assorted homosexuals, spivish repairmen and alcoholics-unanimous from TV, ad alley and publishers' row. The crisis on which the plot slowly turns is whether the Neanderthal man will complete...
...particular conference course may provide stimulation and enthusiasm--they are less hampered in their approach. Bate suggests that this antithesis--routine vs. creativity--may be intensified in conference courses because they are attended by the brightest undergraduates, but not the highest-ranking of the graduates The latter will "bop up" into the solely graduate seminars. Gilmore feels that the graduate may be "drier" because his aims are more professional, his exams more searching, his work more exacting...
SMOKEY, 17, like most leaders of gangs, is alert, intelligent. "People don't understand," he says. "I would much rather not bop. It isn't any fun. You don't know what will happen. You may be killed. Or you may kill someone. Would you think it funny if I said that my real ambition was to become a policeman...