Word: countering
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Percussionist Augie Colon, who is inclined to caterwaul like a turkey buzzard., croak like a frog, or shriek like a cheetah. Blended with Buddhist bells, Burmese cymbals and the West Indian guiro, these noises so far this year have helped sell 60,000 Denny albums, all labeled like bargain-counter perfumes -Exotica, Hypnotique, Afro-Desia...
...beat is different from the other generations of revolt. Other generations have wanted to set up a counter-institutional world; even we anarchists wanted to do that. But the beat sees all these movements as being entrapped in the world of the square. The word square means four-cornered, or lacking flexibility. Of course, we all have some element of squareness in us. But the point is that the beat refuses to have any real dialogue with the world of the square, and this to me is fatal...
...minds of the medieval man that these historians write about: does the Zeitgeist have any universal validity or is it merely a magic name for uniting different manifestations of a culture? Bourne does an astute job of showing how the historians arrive at a causal Zeitgeist indirectly and sometimes counter to their own intentions. But besides a hint that invoking a time-spirit becomes almost a necessity for the cultural historian, Bourne neglects a chance to discuss more thoroughly the validity of the Zeitgeist as a unifying historical construct...
GROCER Eouard Leclerc of Landerneau, France, and Homebuilder John Long of Phoenix, Ariz, have much in common: they are both young entrepreneurs who have startled their respective industries by bringing low costs and high volume. See BUSINESS, Apostle Behind the Counter and How to Live Like a Star...
DeGuglielmo explained to the committee that "a machine is not considered a good machine unless it brings in $100 a week," so that the city's 300 machines probably do a $1.5 million annual business. He pointed out that each machine has a counter which records the number of free games left unplayed; a number of unplayed free games may indicate that a "payoff" is involved...