Word: pogo
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...commencement-time party in the spring is famous in Cambridge, as is the "young people's party" they give in the winter for sons and daughters of their friends. Galbraith's dancing style, which consists mostly of hopping up and down in place, has been described as the "pogo-stick stomp." The Galbraiths have three sons of their own: John Alan, 26 (Harvard '63), a clerk for California Supreme Court Justice Stanley Mosk; Peter, 17, an eleventh-grader at Boston's Commonwealth School; James, 16, a sophomore at Andover. A fourth, Douglas, died of leukemia in 1950 at seven...
...gross misinterpretation of research on TV viewing. I have seen no evidence to support this argument; in fact, the data seem to show that many highly intelligent and creative individuals, both children and adults, watch TV to degrees that the TIME article would find "excessive." Excessive anything-smoking, drinking, pogo-stick jumping-can be indicative of personal problems. Excessive TV viewing may also be indicative of great interest, and serves as the greatest educator since the invention of the Latin grammar school...
...this trend heralds the demise of the dreary situation comedies, ABC's Leonard Goldberg explains that, given the voracious rate at which TV eats up material, "the series will always be the backbone of the TV industry." It hardly matters that, short of featuring a priest on a pogo stick, there are not many plots left beyond The Flying Nun. Producers of westerns have learned that a good way to save on dialogue is to let each of the "ride-bys"-the good guys chasing the bad guys-run on for an extra 20 seconds or so. Says...
...months, the program has included such nutball events as a race in which the participants sledgehammer an upright piano into pieces that can fit into a nine-inch hole, a balloon-bursting contest with a caveman's cudgel, and a sprint in which a man mounts a Pogo stick, a girl gets on his shoulders and they hop along a greased gangplank over a pool of water...
...Anatomic Bomb." The way Linda is carrying on, she will need a pogo stick. She has rented a magnificent Spanish mission house for $2,500 a month and set up a kind of Power Placement Center. She installed ten telephones and planted a nude statue of herself in the foyer as a reminder of the days when, billed as "the Anatomic Bomb," panting tabloids recorded her various amorous adventures...