Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like other varieties of language, Negro argot is always in flux. Terms that are widely adopted by whites go out of style among Negroes, or take on radically different meanings. Square has lately come to mean cigarette, is losing the meaning-not hip-that is familiar to whites. "When it's hip among whites," says one white investigator of the Negro argot, "it's already square among Negroes...
...conductor fall flat. He returned there between Western triumphs last year, was signed by Japan's prestigious NHK (Japanese Broadcasting Corp.) Orchestra to a six-month, $10,000 contract. Proudly, he got up on the podium to display the sweeping conducting technique reminiscent of Bernstein. But his imported hip-swinging was wasted on the musicians of the NHK. For 36 years they had served Germanic masters, who stylistically frown on conducting exertions more noticeable than an occasional swing of the index finger. The sight of the flailing young conductor reminded a critic of "a samurai warrior leading...
...other hand, the Newport Jazz Festival exposes large numbers of people outside the urban hip crowd to good live jazz. It employs scores of musicians, many of whom really need the money. And if the setting and tone of the Festival tends to make the musicians exuberant rather than reflective, so what? Good music is good music whatever the mood...
...Carl L. Shipley: "The depths of this Goldwater feeling is absolutely fantastic. The talk from all sides in Denver is driving nails in Rockefeller's political coffin." Said Maryland's David Scull: "A lot of us have reservations about his tendency to shoot from the hip; it makes us nervous when we think of it in a President. But as of now Goldwater is our best candidate." Said Texas' Peter O'Donnell: "Goldwater will be nominated...
...thin welcoming crowd was not exactly eager to make him an honorary citizen. Minutes before Khrushchev's turboprop landed at Schonefeld Airport, an announcer drilled the spectators in a proper greeting: "Now, when our friend steps out of his plane, we will all cheer in unison, hip, hip, hurrah." When Nikita stepped out of his plane, all smiles, the crowd was silent and only the honor guard of soldiers shouted, officially. In contrast to President Kennedy's welcome by more than a million West Berliners, a scant 250,000 East Berlin factory workers, secretaries and schoolchildren, marching...