Word: hooted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...musicians try to schedule at least one Los Angeles "first" for every concert. This sometimes leads them into fairly deep musical waters (e.g., unfamiliar works by Arnold Schoenberg, Paul Hindemith, Anton von Webern). They do not give a hoot for the critics. The Roof's printed programs run a back-page column of critical comments, listed under two headings, "Figs" and "Thistles." Sample thistles on the back page last week: "Dull Roof Concert Dredges Up Bores" (Los Angeles Times); "Within the seven minutes it takes to perform, [a quartet by Webern] is spare, economical, terse and austere, and seven...
Thefts such as these have been going on "ever since we opened Wellesley up to those Harvard boys," according to a house mother. Another commented that she "didn't give a hoot...
Missouri's Clarence Cannon, House appropriations czar, greeted the request with a hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...
Detroit is still in the slump which struck it last September. George Kell and Vic Wertz are the best third baseman and right fielder in the game, but only Hal Newhouser is pitching adequately. Hoot Evers, easily the best left fielder in the league last year, is hitting .133 and sitting on the bench. Johnny Lipon's fielding at short has fallen apart after a great year. Only catcher Myron Ginsberg has shown improvement...
...painted them with a radiance that has not yet been surpassed. As a young art critic, John Ruskin saw their greatness, but most of Turner's fellow academicians did not. Because Turner dared paint sunsets as they really look, and because toward the end he cared not a hoot for composition, he was accused of tastelessness. He still is, but good taste remains a refuge of minor artists, one Turner had no need...