Word: hi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...girl, the summit of social acceptance is election into Sub-Deb Club or Jinx Club, sorority-like organizations not connected officially with the school. Hi-Y and Torch Club for boys are sponsored by the school, but membership is also selective...
...over his present equipment, the listener will need only a stereo cartridge, which he can now buy in the $4-to-$10 price range. But if he wants true stereo sound he will need a second amplifier and speaker. The whole setup could easily cost him less than some hi-fi rigs, since stereo achieves impressive sound even with small speakers and low-powered amplifiers...
...happy medium in education without mottoing "Excelsior Dewey" or "Hi-Ho Science...
...instance, he starts with a theme from Rodolfo's aria, Che gelida manina from La Bohème, develops the second chorus as a Mozart sonatina, cuts loose briefly with a sample of stride harpsichord, returns to Bohème in the coda. The album should send hi-fi bugs skittering, but no sound on it is as fascinating as the musical imagination that puts them together...
...Japanese mother-wear flame-red shirts, rose-pink coats, lobster-colored tight pants, blue or white suede shoes. They have learned their art from listening to U.S. records of Elvis Presley, though sometimes the lyrics suffer a transoceanic mutilation, as in Rub Me Tender and Rittoru Dahring (Little Darling). Hi rao is solemnly described by one of his fans as "Japan's Elvis Presley but more acceptable to us because his gestures are not so obscene." Hirao's father, who manufactures teen-age cosmetics, prints his son's autograph on every box, and says...