Word: helling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Angeles, a black bartender confessed, "Older Negroes have a hell of a time with this new generation." But in the next breath he sympathized with the youthful militants. "Don't get me wrong," he said. "It's what the white man deserves for sitting on his ass for 200 years. If he had taught these kids how to read and given them a job, then they wouldn't be a problem...
...concert with a closed ear. Unfortunately this is what a lot of self-styled "music lovers" seem to be doing; fortunately, under the guidance of brilliant musical minds like Leon Kirchner, music continues to be daring, provoking, and inspiring--as mehitabel would say--in spite of hell...
...Booth was to fall into the hands of Carl Sandburg." A kind of pseudo-folksy affectation came into some of Sandburg's work. Such criticism never troubled the poet. He was an old-fashioned storyteller, and when an interviewer once mentioned modern poetry, Sandburg snorted: "I say to hell with the new poetry. Sometimes I think it's a series of ear wigglings...
...night in a Negro neighborhood. In the stifling heat, Smith grew impatient and imprudent. Alternately braking and accelerating, flicking his headlights on and off, Smith tailgated the police car. Finally, after a quarter-mile of tailgating, Smith tried to swing past the police. They cut him off. Who the hell? . . . Goddam . . . Son of a bitch! There was a short scuffle, and Smith was trundled into the squad...
...A.T.F. type face called Americana. The symbol was invented by Martin K. Speckter, an advertising-agency president and hobbyist printer, who had long brooded over the proper punctuation for such rhetorical questions of daily life as "Who forgot to put gas in the car" or "What the hell." Speckter's device, which he prefers to call the interrobang ("bang" is printer's slang for an exclamation point), remained just an idea until Detroit Graphic Artist Richard Isbell casually included it in the Americana face he was designing. Delighted by its possibilities, the A.T.F. plans to include...