Word: freshers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also had a clutch of new songs that seemed fresher and more sophisticated than '50s-vintage Lehrer. In the Dominican Republic, he cracked, Johnson landed the marines "faster than you can knock down Sonny Liston." Lehrer also pinked the plunking protestniks whose St. Joan is Baez. "We are the folk song army," he chirps. "Every one of us care ... It sounds more ethnic if it ain't in good English...
Above all, rock 'n' roll today is lively, youthful, aggressive, often funny, seldom heartsick. The lyrics, showing the influence of folk music, are fresher and more intelligible. Coming the other way, the folk types are beginning to feel the beat. Drums and electric guitars, long scorned by folkniks as decadent commercialism, are now featured on the latest album by Bob Dylan, folkdom's crown prince...
...pantomimic cliché that turns up endlessly is the in-place step-slide, in which a character appears to be trekking across a tundra of coagulated syrup. Considerably fresher, though not terribly pertinent, is the occasional very cool jazz accompaniment that suggests that all attempts to immunize Iron Curtain countries from the music of the decadent West have failed...
...Moore, who says expansively: "None of it was really a surprise, only a confirmation." ABC's shows are apparently more dynamically mediocre than CBS's, for it is obviously out of CBS that ABC has taken its great equalizing bite (see chart). ABC, at any rate, has fresher and less mechanical situation comedies than CBS and with its two Peyton Place programs it has proved to all television that audiences at night like sex and soap as much as audiences do in the daytime...
...most turgid and absurd in the long, confused eulogy of Jean Genet's scabrous Our Lady of the Flowers; Sartre described the book as an epic of masturbation, and Genet described Sartre in some of his favorite four-letter words. But Sartre has lately found a fresher vein; in his autobiographical The Words (TIME, Oct. 9) he reminisces simply and compellingly about his unhappy childhood, from which he eventually escaped into literature as others escape into religion, business, or the Foreign Legion...