Word: digging
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz. He also mixes in a never-ending supply of phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target...
...absent from Pete Seeger's repertoire. One may call it naivete when he does an imitation of a "Japanese orchestra" by moaning painfully into the microphone for a few seconds--then stamping his foot, explaining "that's when they drop a brick on the floor; I just don't dig that rhythm...
...U.S.S.R. Clearly, we destroy each other, and China wins. Suppose, on the other hand, that a war breaks out between the U.S. and China-what happens then? You Americans drop nuclear bombs on China and kill a few million people, and the other 500 million or more dig in. Mao Tse-tung calls on us for support, and so again the Russians and the Americans destroy each other-and China still wins...
Born Free, by Joy Adamson. Even readers who do not dig cats should enjoy this remarkable, engaging account of how the author-rivaling Androcles-managed to turn a lioness into a household tabby...
Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here...