Word: coolness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With his nerves still twanging from the trip, Darby finished his note. He wrote: "I'm typing this in the waiting room of the Denver & Rio Grande Western Railroad depot, the typewriter on a chair beside a potbellied stove. The temperature is a cool 66°; a mile up a dusty gravel road, the President is enjoying some fishing. Western Union Morse circuits are tapping away in the next room on press stories and White House messages. I've bought some levis and heavy flannel shirts. I'm assured that a six-gun is not really necessary...
...marquesses and one sad and shopworn King (Peter of Yugoslavia), were all supposed to dress in the same (circa 1750) style, but many seemed as vague about their century as they did about their host, Ballet Impresario George de Cuevas, Marquis de Piedrablanca de Guana, who was spending a cool $75,000 to entertain them. Elsa Maxwell, who came only a couple of centuries too early in a red wig as Don Quixote's donkey-riding Sancho Panza, called him "that wonderful Italian who is doing so much for Biarritz . . . and Biarritz is France...
Thus, with the poetic license of storytellers through the ages, TV Comedian Steve Allen updated the Grimm fairy tale in jazzdom's Down Beat magazine last spring. It was intended only as a private joke for bopsters, told in the latest Tin Pan Alley argot, where "cool" means good, "crazy" means wonderful and anything that is really tops is simply called "the most." But the tale quickly reached a larger public when Manhattan Disk Jockey Al "Jazzbo" Collins read it over the air, then recorded it for Brunswick. The record has sold a reported 200,000 copies to become...
...mounts to unbearable decibels, one of the most inviting oases-better even than an air-conditioned movie-is the Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Modern Art. There, only two blocks north of towering Rockefeller Center, the visitor may walk in peace amidst birches, hornbeams and willows, linger by cool reflecting pools, or sit on convenient benches, looking at sculpture...
...Goodridge Roberts studied in Manhattan with John Sloan, Max Weber and Boardman Robinson, will soon travel to Paris on a Canadian government fellowship. Like most contemporary Canadian painters, he feels closer to Paris than to New York. After Jackson's "Group of Seven," Roberts' art looks cool and quiet as an anticlimax ought...