Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Academically, times have changed at the two schools. Several years ago, it may have been appropriate to say that. "Harvard teaches what the law is. and Yale teaches what the law should be." Today that would be as outdated as to shout "Keep Cool with Coolidge" in an election campaign. The schools necessarily teach basic legal traditions, and both also teach that law is a living and developing institution. Harvard, by introducing the case study method, and Yale, by beginning the so-called "policy approach to the law," achieved revolutions in legal education...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...
...Baker, Stan Getz, Shorty Rogers) is neither chaotic nor abandoned. It evokes neither swinging hips nor hip flasks. It goes to the head and the heart more than to the feet. Spokesmen for various jazz cliques have claimed that it doesn't swing (or swings like crazy), is cool (or hot), too intellectual (or just warmed-over bop), the end of jazz in America (or its greatest hope...
...lingo becomes obsolescent almost as fast as it reaches the public ear. A term of high approbation in the swing era was "out of this world," in the bop era it was "gone," and today it is "the greatest" or "the end." Similarly, a daring performance was "hot," then "cool," and now is "far out." These are the terms currently most often used by modern jazz addicts: ball, n. A good time; having a ball; enjoying oneself...
...cool, v. Relax, e.g., "I cooled it at a table for a while...