Search Details

Word: digging (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jazz: The Loneliest Monk | 2/28/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Singers: The Unbarbershopped Quartet | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: The Air Force as Welfare Worker | 2/21/1964 | See Source »

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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Old Faces: Bogey Worship | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: A Bog(us)ey Report | 2/7/1964 | See Source »

Previous | 44 | 45 | 46 | 47 | 48 | 49 | 50 | 51 | 52 | 53 | 54 | 55 | 56 | 57 | 58 | 59 | 60 | 61 | 62 | 63 | 64 | Next