Word: kids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...remained what it was at the beginning, a pure and vital folk art that had evolved from 1,000 years of African and European culture and two centuries of American slavery. Historians have written volumes on what New Orleans jazz is, but none come closer to its essence than Kid Sheik with his simple definition: "It's a feeling. Just like when you get the spirit on you in church. You can't play this music unless you got the feeling to play it-and love it. Then you puts the feeling in the other people...
...black man dressed incongruously in a cowboy hat and a loud Hawaiian shirt was standing near the entrance, listening to the sounds coming from within. It was George ("Kid Sheik") Colar, 74, a veteran trumpet player with a ready grin and an infectious laugh. Would he recognize me after so long? "Sheik!" The face turned, the eyes looked puzzled for an instant behind their black-rimmed glasses. Then that wonderful laugh shattered the silence...
When Kim or Benny ("Kid") Paret or somebody else noticeable dies, there is always a momentary call for stricter regulations, fewer rounds, lighter gloves. And headgear, though one of the six boxers killed this year was wearing one. Naturally, some people also talk of abolishing boxing. But when boxing was illegal, men fought in back rooms and on barges. Men fight. Some put courage with skill and make art, not that boxing is justified even as art (though Muhammad Ali in his prime surely made it seem so). Boxing will exist as long as what it reflects in men exists...
Kennedy was the "Sundance Kid," who "blew into our lives like a blast of cold air." Leading into the Kennedy batch of drawings, Feiffer acknowledges the excitement the young leader provided, but he also sees in him a certain liberal aristocrafic falseness. "Style engulfed substance," he writes. Kennedy's views on foreign affairs "were shaped by James Bond." The cartoon characters begin to evince a certain liberal hypocrisy. One concludes that "civil rights used to be so much more tolerable before Negroes got into...
...kid," he says, "I couldn't have fantasized about the life I have today: I had no idea this sort of life existed. Sometimes, I have to admit. I can't believe it exists for me, that I'm living the American dream...