Word: reckoning
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick atmosphere seems to be a good place for growing folk-singers, and their number increases every year. To be a night-club folk-singer, you need only a guitar (preferably battered), some dust on your shoes, a loud wool shirt, and a neo-Ozark accent ("Well sir, reckon I'll) sing a little ditty I picked up on the way to . . ."). This equipment is essential because folk-singers are supposed to be sprung from the earth...
...Town is written in pioneer idiom; sometimes it gets to be a strain watching Richter strain for colorful expressions. But when he succeeds, they're good, e.g., "You wouldn't reckon to look at her she could read a lick, but she'd turn the old page and suck out the meaning of the new like a bird pulling out a worm...
...like your spicy lingo, and I reckon that regulars figure out the initialese (G.O.P., EGA, etc.). It's fairly easy now to follow Big John with his sidekicks in a souped-up Caddy to the hot-stove-league ball game at the jampacked Rose Bowl . . . I could creep into a flophouse, speakeasy, hot-spot or crap-joint with a pretty clear idea of what I'd be in there for. And although I admit that there are times when I could cheerfully hospitalize your typewriter-pecking hoodlums with a double whammy from Fowler's English Usage...
Trilled one of the guests: "They're just the nicest couple I've met. In the future we shall reckon time as before or after the Rydhave party. It has been a red-letter day in our lives...
...should only help others to help themselves: "We must always reckon that our aid can be only relative, and relative only in a marginal sense; to the efforts they themselves must make ... If their efforts are perfunctory or inefficient or fainthearted, our aid to them can scarcely be otherwise. Above all, our will cannot replace their will . . . We must be careful [not to become] their debauchers rather than their helpers...