Word: far-out
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...simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern of three lines, is the runaway favorite. Harold G. Henderson, author of An Introduction to Haiku, estimates that 1,000,000 haiku are printed every year. Trains of Reverie. By Western standards, the haiku is far-out poetry. It does not rhyme. The strange nuances -even the punctuation has significance -usually get trampled in translation. The haiku does not even seem to say much; its fragile content defies explanation; its meaning must be found, not only in the haiku's simple imagery, but in the trains...
...missilemen at the Pentagon and Cape Canaveral studied the figures, agreed that the Russians were ahead in terms of weight of payload, propulsion power, general rocket reliability. The U.S.S.R.'s rocket was also the first far-out Russian rocket detected by U.S. tracking systems. Whatever their secret launching-pad failures, the Russians apparently scored with the first rocket they got off the ground...
...riders into faithful, fulltime riders. To do it, the North Western more than doubled prices of one-way tickets for close-in riders, thus making it costly to be an irregular, close-in commuter. But it scaled down the increase so that there was no change in fares for far-out riders and little change in monthly tickets. Heineman promised a much faster ride for the extra money...
...necessity of making a multitude of stops within the city, many of them less than a mile apart. Heineman closed 28 stations within Chicago and the close-in suburbs. While the line thus lost 3,000 close-in passengers, it guaranteed better service to its 43,000 far-out commuters, cut their riding time to the Loop by one to 19 minutes...
Neither in San Francisco beatnik saloons nor Manhattan dives could this inspired narrative have been heard last week, but it echoed through Munich jazz cellars. U.S.-style rock 'n' roll, with its clog-shoe tempo and its far-out jargon, is sweeping Germany and leaving the language in Teutonic tatters.* Along with the new lingo, a new generation of singers (or shouters) have appeared, all of them alarmingly young. Where U.S. rock 'n' rollers are well along in years (19-25), Germany's top practitioners are in their early teens, and at least one solid...