Word: jiving
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This phrase keynotes the bright dialogue of this bright new novel. What is a Jumble? The term is a kind of Joycean jive for Johnbull, blurred by soft voices and subtle minds to a new sound. The word is used by London's fast-growing population of West Indian and African Negroes. In their eyes, the whites whose town they have invaded are confused and confusing, square as tea chests, Jumbled in their thoughts about Spades. And Spades, of course, are the Negroes as they describe themselves-hip in their bright night world, realistically calling a spade a spade...
...Bobbettes; Atlantic). A bestseller all about a suave-moving gent named Lee who is the cynosure of roving female eyes: "One, two, three Look at Mr. Lee Three, four, five Look at him jive!" Sung with a frenetic enthusiasm that suggests an itchy beater flailing the bush for quail...
TAKE the Parthenon," said Manhattan Architect Marcel Breuer. "The sculpture is architectural decoration, whereas in our sculptural solutions we use completely independent forms which by some invisible, mysterious means 'jive' with the architecture." Breuer was talking to TIME Researcher Martha Peter Welch, who called on him last week to get his views on the relationship of outdoor sculpture to modern architecture. From the Parthenon Breuer moved quickly on to his UNESCO building, which is being put up in Paris with sculpture and murals by Henry Moore, Alexander Calder, Arp, Miro and Picasso. As Breuer talked, he doodled...
...meeting of minds. The Americans were represented mainly by the Porgy players, who had been given by American history a faculty for looking at social institutions with a wary eye. The Russians were represented by 1984 men, whom history had given nothing but a theory of history. Jive and Marxism simply do not dig each other. It is Capote's achievement that the pseudo-sophistication of jive comes through as a kind of innocence, while the smug smog of Marxism is shown for what it is-a grey disease of the mind...
...elegance to the zoot padding of a Harlem hepcat. Their hair is elaborately and expensively coiffured in long, wavy styles that range from the "D.A." (for Duck's Arse) to the "TV Roll" and the "Tony Curtis." Their jargon is a mixture of Cockney rhyming slang and U.S. jive talk in which a road is a "frog" (from the phrase frog-and-toad, which rhymes with road), a suit is a "whistle" (from whistle-and-flute), and a girl is a "bird...