Word: hepness
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...leader, Norman Mailer, summed up the critique in his Presidential Papers of last year. Mailer vents his spleen more on the language than the content of liberalism. Claiming to "understand" the poor, he resents liberals who classify the underprivileged as "problems:" "These are people, not quandaries, and they're hep enough to hate the big cement housing projects that 'tolerant' progressives build so proudly." Compassionate and sincere, Humphrey may be; hep, he is not. Where Mailer calls for an artist-politician, sensitive to the people's "existential" needs, Humphrey's words suggest the enthusiasm of a Rotarian recently converted...
...filing fee. At times he writes like a judge: "This breathes of the appellate court's wrath at their lower court brethren." At times he hectors uncooperative court clerks: "You are not the court. You are not God. You are just Charley Limpus." Always he seems more hep on relevant new decisions than many judges. "He's a brilliant man," says Orange County Public Defender W. D. Frederick Jr. "His grasp of case law is phenomenal...
...every twelve people now). Then, as in the U.S. market now, sales will depend primarily on replacement needs and population growth. Companies will probably have to make more model changes and get hep on trade-in deals...
...meant that though his inspiration might come from the object, he was not imprisoned by it. Davis' paintings became ballets of what he called "color-spaces," but the beat of the ballets was always jazz. What caught his imagination was everyday America-the gas pumps, factories, cities, the hep talk and hip music-even the signs, "the visual dialect of the city." Since he never lost touch with reality, Davis refuses to be called abstract. His color-spaces are merely "a language to express daily observations...
...takes its listeners to a "house on East 68th Street in little old New York," where Dorothy ("Sweetie") Kilgallen and Spouse Richard ("Darling") Kollmar fill the air with papier-máché sophistication, some slightly dated hep talk (Dottie still peppers her sentences with words like cat, bug and dig), and some vicious meows. Dorothy also has an inclination to be hilariously wrong. With authority and certitude, she misplaces geographical landmarks, mispronounces French words, and misnames the heroes of history. WOR listeners tune her in with something of the same impulse that makes crowds gather at a fatal accident...