Word: hepness
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...soft coal. "Bi tuminous or lignite?" countered Brother David. Richard changed the subject to an 1865 coin that his mother owns. When Daniel recalled 1865 as the year of Jean Sibelius' birth. "They talk awfully good," says their neighbor Susan Rule, 8. "But they're just not hep." A neighborhood mother marvels at Mrs. Trifan, says: "I'm glad to get my kids out of the house...
Soon after the missilemen moved in, Principal Brown found himself with the problem of teaching youngsters who were scientifically more hep than the school's science program. In 1957 Brown raided the missile base for electronic equipment, and Biology Teacher Gerald Einem set up a volunteer advanced research class. Given their heads, Melbourne's students brewed up a brain storm. One built an artificial kidney, another a digital computer. They tried everything from inducing cancer in mice to making toads lay eggs out of season. It got so that local repairmen refused to fix anything at the school...
...Hep...
...unhip (un-hep) this TIME...
...replaced the enunciation "hep," which had all the current meanings. Why? Because some hepster preferred the key of i to that of e, just as English vowel changes produced...