Word: fogyism
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...nominal idea of the concerts was to trace rock's journey by pairing up Hall inductees of different vintages and styles for performances that highlight influence. Or just generate a highlight. The first night tilted toward fogyism, with Crosby, Stills and Nash, Simon and Garfunkel and Stevie Wonder, among others, doing serviceable work before ceding the stage to Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, who gamely refused to turn the show into their own by playing with Darlene Love, John Fogerty and Billy Joel. Presumably that was to highlight the influence of New Jersey on Long Island, New York...
...Hawkins Quintet; Riverside). The storied 1920s blues singer was around 70 when she came out of retirement to record this album last spring-and her dragging tempo and uncertainty of pitch give her away. But her voice-more nasal and corrugated than ever-is still an impressive instrument in Fogyism and Wild Women Don't Have the Blues, as Ida sells her message with a conviction that singers a third her age cannot muster...
Nowadays, it is smart to be spiritually alive. It is old-fogyism to be ignorant of that happiness-producing transformation which people everywhere are enjoying at this time...
...fortnightly (September to May) Scholastic, modern, not to be accused of fogyism, carries work by such erudite craftsmen as Eugene O'Neill, Katherine Mansfield, Hervey Allen, reports for the young, affairs political, scientific, artistic. Founded in 1920 by Maurice R. Robinson, The Scholastic has a circulation of 110,000. Its vice president is G. Herbert McCracken, head football coach at Lafayette College (Easton, Pa,), its board chairman Augustus K. Oliver, onetime owner of the Pittsburgh Gazette Times and Chronicle Telegraph. Scholastic promised that it would not alter "St. Nick" for the present...
...Paris last week the Municipal Council took vigorous steps to stamp out such old fogyism, to force everyone who is not blind to see advertisements...