Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shape-up. Junkies who were good players a year ago swoop through the clubs in search of a touch, faces faintly dusty, feet itching, nodding, scratching. The simple jazz fans in the audience sit shivering in the cold fog of hostility the players blow down from the stand. A dig-we-must panic inhibits them from displaying any enthusiasm? which only further convinces the players that their music is lost on the wind...
Adults may not dig, but how could 20 million teen-agers be wrong? The Beatles are fab. The Beatles are great. The Beatles are different. The Beatles are cool, cool, cool, cool, cool...
Military "civic action" is spreading. Colombian air force engineers are hacking out jungle highways; army troops are detailed to remote villages to build schools and clinics, dig wells and paint houses. Other armies-in Peru, Ecuador, Brazil, Venezuela-have also established public-works beachheads in the boondocks. "The role of the military," says Lieut. Colonel Alvaro Baquero, Satena's general manager, "is not only to defend the nation, but also to help...
Essence of Cool. Bogart's side-o-mouth repartee has become the canon vernacular of Harvard Yard, and anyone who doesn't dig it is digging his social grave. Harvard boys, ordering another round of drinks, rasp: "Play it again, Sam." Raising their glasses, they say: "Here's looking at ya, kid!" And when they're getting ready to blow the joint, they ask: "Ya ready, Slim?" When they want to express arrogance or individuality, they spit: "I don't have to show you no stinking badge." That line is so popular that one group...
...again Time Magazine tells the nation this week what life is really like at Harvard. In case you were too busy studying last week to notice, "Humphrey Bogart's side-o-mouth repartee has become the canon vernacular of Harvard Yard," according to Time, "and anyone who doesn't dig it is digging his social grave...