Word: kicked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...LION SLEEPS TONIGHT (the Tokens; RCA Victor). A first album by the newest teen-age quartet to bleat their way to fortune. Here they kick rock 'n' roll to concentrate on folk-style tunes-Michael, Shenandoah, Jamaica Farewell. Underneath their Brooklyn twang, there are even hints of talent...
...dialogue, even the best, reduces itself to threatening, because patterned, gibberish, the quality of dramatic action becomes infected by a kind of eccentric Spieltrieb, the aesthetic play of the "humorous" cripple. To act upon the assumptions of a rejected humanism is tonic, or at least good for kick, and wry glimpses of a hypothetical salvation may still be achieved in the pick-up bed. This is the mother vein of romantic irony, clowning in the densely-populated limbo between "infinite will" and "confined execution...
...informal folk sing, with individual performances, group singing, and a presentation by the newly formed Freshman Band, will kick off the series on March 16. The Freshman Council decided this week to set the following Friday night, March 23, as a mixed bridge tournament. If the game is successful, tournaments may be scheduled regularly...
...teacher in a New York City high school, I wish to protest an article about a new teen-age kick-glue sniffing [Feb. 16]. To go into the exact techniques for enjoying the effects of glue vapors is just short of criminal...
...next cheap kick is already on the scene. Some fast-drying marking pencils contain a solvent like those in the plastic glues, are more inconspicuous for sniffing. A Washington, D.C., public school music teacher told recently of a boy in her class who ordinarily never sang a note. One day she noticed him sniffing a marking pencil behind his songbook: "Then he got up and sang like a bird...