Word: dope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jazz and dope often seem as closely linked as their jargon; e.g., the jazz terms "hip" and "hipster" are derived from opium smoking, during which the addict lies on one hip. Such famed hipsters as Gene Krupa, Thelonius Monk and the late Billie Holliday had their public problems with dope, and the jazz trade has long refused to book some big-name combos into cities where drugs are known to be hard to get. To find out just how far jazz and dope play hand in hand, Manhattan Psychologist Charles Winick interviewed 357 jazz musicians on the habits of some...
...found that often there was "positive social pressure" on jazz players to use drugs, cited one band in which only one member did not smoke "pot"-and he was called an addict by the narcotics users because he took Miltown. Among the "benefits" the users feel they get from dope: 1) "contact high," a sort of group excitement; 2) release from personal problems; and 3) a physical boost on road trips when they pull into a town after an all-day bus ride and have to play all evening. Said one player-who prefers drugs to alcohol: "If you drank...
...young Sohobo (Laurence Harvey) who calls himself a talent agent because he books skiffle bands and strip acts into low resorts. One night in an espresso parlor he hears a teen-age rockney (Cliff Richard) who bangs bongo and makes noises like Elvis Presley. The agent rooks the dope into a fifty-fifty split of all his earnings, soon makes him a major platter personality, TV type and subject of sociological concern ("Drums," a psychiatrist declares, "may be his means of evacuating tension"). In the end, of course, the yob gets with it, and the agent finds himself...
...water and other amenities-is singularly indifferent to the needs of overseas visitors. There are seldom interpreters and few facilities at airports or docks to help tourists. Foreigners often complain that they are put last in line at U.S. customs inspection, then cross-examined as if they were dope smugglers or prostitutes...
...advertising session with Gray. Questioning the use of "like," Critic Clifton Fadiman assailed the "quiet assassination of the conjunction 'as,' " and Editor Bruce Bliven cried: "I find that I sit in front of my television set shouting at the tiny figures on it: 'No, no, you dope. Like is a preposition...