Word: jitterism
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...They were the zoot-suit wearers, the jive bombers and the jitter-bugs...
...means to an end, is hardly more than a canapé. Good works - Bundles for Brit ain, aid to Finland, homes for children refugees - take a lot of time because the reward of generosity is favorable publicity. Thus life for Julian and Amanda is an intense jitter of methodical planning to do things which give them no real pleasure. Even their off-hours have to be rationed to the last minute: "SLEEP (for efficiency purposes) 7 hrs. 18 min. ; CONVERSA TION WITH STAFF (for good-will and esprit de corps purposes) 12 min.; TALK WITH BARBER OR MANICURIST (for purpose...
...people, going to a Symphony concert is a plain and simple evil, and not even a necessary one--like sending birthday presents to great-aunts. But more than a few Harvard jitter-bugs and Totem Pole devotees have echoed the words of one Freshman who, on returning home after his first year at college, was asked what he'd grained culturally during the year...
When Werner Janssen formed his symphony last year, critics praised its smooth string playing (its motto: "Every man a Heifetz"), the variety of its music. But when the Janssen Symphony wangled eight dates on California's Standard Symphony Hour, the Los Angeles Philharmonic began to jitter. The Philharmonic, founded in 1919 by Copperman William Andrews Clark Jr., and nurtured until his death in 1934 by about $3,000,000 of his money, now depends on the public for support (deficit: $100,000 or more a year). The Philharmonic was afraid that Los Angeles could not support two symphonies...
Three years ago, when Benny Goodman played at Manhattan's Paramount theater, jitterbugs cavorted in the aisles-so wildly that police were summoned. Psychiatrists gravely speculated on what made the bugs jitter. Last week came an answer: they were hired to. Haled into a Manhattan court was Irving ("Schnitz") Davidson, boss of an organization called "The 200 Characters," who could be had to dance in aisles, make a fuss over celebrities arriving in railroad stations, mob people for autographs, carry instruments for orchestra players. Charged with assault on a muscler-in on his trade, Boss "Schnitz...