Word: hoo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pretty much what he was capable of doing. Most depressing, he knows that he will have to go on doing it with ever-brighter, ever-younger men nipping at his heels." It is precisely that self-imposed psychological impotence that lies behind T. S. Eliot's middle-age "hoo-ha's." The primary affliction of middle-age is the fear of taking a chance, sloughing off old, stultifying patterns and starting something new in the direction of self-fulfillment...
...despairs, somber with peril and melancholy. The middle-ager usually knows better than to stay up till 4 a.m., but he sometimes finds himself waking up at 4 or 5 a.m. in a swivet of inexplicable panic. He has reached the age of what T. S. Eliot called the hoo...
dream and you've got the hoo...
...fellow who wept because he had no shoes until he met the man who had no feet probably felt a little like the Harvard baseball team does today: our hitting may be pretty weak, but Princeton -- hoo...
...Local Neo-American Church Boo Hoos" are listed in another Bulletin. The Church, which Miss Bieberman describes as "a fellowship for the use of psychedelics," was founded by Arthur Kleps, a psychologist. "He appointed himself Chief Boo Hoo of the Church," she explaines, "He means to sound absurd because he doesn't believe in taking organizations too seriously. Chief Boo Hoo is not like Chairman of the Board...