Word: esses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Liberated chicks began slipping the word into conversations during this past decade but we didn't really mind, because it was still private and full of meaning. When good novels could no longer sell without it well, that was all right, too; it was passed strictly between the author (ess) and the reader...
...music. "The two can no longer exist apart," he insists. "Musicians are being forced to recognize all kinds of technical advances. Their job is to catch up with them and guide them." This may be somewhat easier for Xenakis (whose full name is pronounced Yahn-nis Zen-nahk-ess) than for some of his peers. An accomplished architect, engineer and philosopher as well as a composer, he is enough at home with an IBM 7090 computer to use it in calculating his compositions, which owe a large intellectual debt to the universal language of science: mathematics...
...ESTHER ESS took a seat at one end of the table, and he sat down at the other. There was a noticeable silence--both knew how weighty this confrontation would be. Each waited for the other to make the first movement...
Soon after his arrival in the capital, Kuntze demonstrated his logistical prow ess by requisitioning Jannie Suen, a sinuous Chinese miss who was 19 years his junior. The Saigon siren and the Wisconsin salt, who was divorced be fore going to Viet Nam, merrily made the rounds of the diplomatic circuit, threw their own swinging rumpuses in Kuntze's quasi embassy at No. 74 Hong Thap Tu, Vietnamese for Red Cross Street...
...affluence have also altered his style. His rhythm songs now have about as much rock as a rocking chair, and the most widely deplored Pelvis in human history has practically ground to a halt. The Presley phiz moves even ]ess-it just twitches now and then, maybe to scare off flies. For Presley, immobility may signify maturity. He is pitching his act at some sort of adult audience-possibly adult chimpanzees...