Word: hogs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...recording royalties. For the other 30%, plus 10% agent's fees, he watches over their appearance (longish hair, with an occasional permanent), their manners and morals ("the more they can date the better, but no late nights and no alcohol"). He also works like a sand hog to get them bookings in nightclubs, on TV, and even in straight plays. Says 27-year-old Parnes: "You've got to put the goods in the window...
...last year's vaunted "great leap forward" in the Year of the Dog in the production of everything from steel to sesame seeds, and given all their own hard work, mainland China's hard-pressed masses had every reason to expect to be eating higher on the hog. Instead, they are living through some of the hardest times since Mao Tse-tung took power in Peking...
...make any comment? 'Yes," said Corso. "Fried shoes. Like it means nothing. It's all a big laughing bowl and we're caught in it. A scary laughing bowl." Added Gregory Corso, with the enigmatic quality of a true Beatnik: "Don't shoot the wart hog." Chimed in Allen Ginsberg: "My mystical shears snip snip snip...
...scene run in reverse, the Beatniks read their poetry, made their pitch for money for a new Beatnik magazine. The Big Table, and then stalked out. After a late night on the town, they made a mystical pilgrimage to Chicago's Lincoln Park Zoo (which has no wart hog and no laughing bowl), turned up next evening at the Sherman Hotel, read more poetry for a curious crowd of 700 (who paid $1 and up), this session sponsored by Chicago's Shaw Society...
Incentives of Cost. Having made many concessions to a sullen peasantry to get work out of them, the Soviet boss now finds them living too high on the hog-a trend that is even more marked in Communist Poland, where, one economist says, "the cities are working for the peasants...