Word: moans
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...telling of the riots that broke up the Newport Jazz Festival this summer. In this case, the Japanese got there first: at Tokyo's first jazz festival last summer, an overflow crowd almost tore down the joint to hear a succession of Japanese big bands and combos and moan "Shinu, shinu, shinu...
...have misquoted me, in a very disquieting way, in your July 4 issue. I did not "moan" at the Berlin Congress for Cultural Freedom: "Western literature is the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse." Nor any words to that general effect. What I said (smiling or possibly even laughing) was that writing about mass culture for the mass audience (e.g., such bestsellers as The Status Seekers, The Organization Man, etc.) had become the latest form of pornography-"the mirror on the ceiling of the whorehouse." Such sociologizing books and articles have nothing to do with literature...
...rooms will outrun facilities; 1960 is the year of the big squeeze, and traveling will often prove hard work. At the height of the season, which begins this month and runs through September, tourists must be prepared to scramble for unreserved hotel rooms, cadge for scarce festival tickets, and moan their way through traffic tie-ups that rival rush hours in Manhattan. But customs red tape has been minimized, and except for the Iron Curtain countries and Yugoslavia, visas are burdens of the past, and so is the black market for currency...