Word: riff
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...couldn't learn to live together?" The narrator's sanctimonious reply: "Woody, if we could-even between us-answer that simple question-seemingly simple-we could turn this into a hip world." But the world remains sadly square, and in the highflying riff of moralizing, Old Jazzman Kanin has lost his novel's beat...
...same copy. Carter also has signed covers from Vice President Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. Among others in his autographed collection: Harry Truman and Thomas E. Dewey (both on the same 1948 pre-Election Day issue), John Foster Dulles, Chiang Kaishek, Toscanini, Nehru, the Duke of Windsor and the Morocco Riff leader, Abd el Krim...
...thing to remember is you're not writing a song but a record. What you gotta do is get these kids to identify. That's how we got Yakety Yak [1,000,000]. Mike was at the piano and I was making tea. He started an exciting riff, and right away I threw out: 'Take out the papers and the trash.' At once Mike came up with the second line: 'You don't get no spending cash.' I felt right away we had a hit-we had a little slice here that hadn...
...Chesterton, occasionally got the best of Belloc. To this elite, as he called them, Old Gunner Belloc (he had served in the French artillery) felt free to unlimber a bristling battery of high-caliber snarls against his numerous enemies. They included "poisonous cads" (British peers), "blundering savages and cosmopolitan riff raff" (Russian Communists), "filthy greasy hot Armenians," the "German herd [who] do not reason . . . that is why they take refuge in music," "eunuchs," like Thomas Carlyle, or "screaming Eunuchs," like Hitler, and, of course, "damn fool Editors...
Today the Rif mountains have become a sort of giant casbah, ruled by an underground that is becoming each day more highly organized. Last week TIME Correspondent Stanley Karnow received an anonymous phone call inviting him to visit their camp. A clandestine meeting with Riff leaders in Rabat was followed by a scribbled note of introduction in Arabic; he was led into the hills, first by car and then by mule, handed on from guide to guide. Rocks and bushes along the roads and paths turned out to be camouflaged tribesmen. Time after time he and his guides were stopped...