Word: caveness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...speak of the complete obscurity of the King James Version to modern minds and then give a wonderful example of how it is going to be "improved." "Den of thieves" becomes "robbers' cave." Of course no modern understands the word thieves, and as for den-horrors, the word is virtually cryptic...
...says. "Chinatown was wonderful: an egg roll and two bowls of chow fan for 40?. A little concentrated on the calories, perhaps." Precociously peripatetic at 15, Ancel spent the summer in a lumber camp, left school midway through the year to shovel bat manure in an Oatman, Ariz. cave. "Great fun," says Keys. "I slept out in the desert with the other desert rats. I'd hate to think what we ate. Stews and sourdough bread, I guess...
...reading aloud, and that the modern expressions used would not be out of date in 50 years. Example: the King James "den of thieves" did not become "gangsters' hideout" only because it was thought that the '20s expression might not last long enough. The compromise: "robbers' cave...
Paris gallery owners estimate that there are about 100 serious U.S. painters now working in Paris, but few of them have attracted as much attention as 35-year-old Joe Downing, who comes from Horse Cave, Ky. (pop. 1,545). With scraps of specially treated paper and a stapler to fasten them together, Downing produces "paintings" that have brought French critics under his spell...
What New York has is jazz, man. The city has taken over the franchise from New Orleans and Chicago, and is now Coolsville itself. The Jazz Gallery is a cold, concrete cave that could be an abandoned subway station; dedicated ears listen while Thelonious Monk passively stirs his piano or Dave Brubeck passionately tinkles his. From Basin Street East to the Roundtable, the Half Note Club to Birdland, the Embers to the Five Spot Café, the big cats prowl; and no jazz musician considers his career made until he has made it in Manhattan. There are also places like...