Word: rocke
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other ships looked like black bugs under the blazing desert sun. Alongside, white, shimmering sand on the rock-filled banks slipped silently by. Cars and trucks sped by occasionally on the canal highway. Beyond, in the rolling desert, djinns of dust spun with the wind. Occasionally we saw a camouflaged gun position, a snorting dredge, a rowboat with a fisherman and his son watching their nets...
...result, claimed ASCAPers, has been the rapid lowering of public taste in music-and the rise of rock 'n' roll. Said Veteran Librettist Harbach, 83: "The greatest melodies of the past would never have had a chance to reach the public if they were written now instead of then. Would Smoke Gets in Your Eyes be allowed by broadcasters to be heard instead of Be-Bop-a-Lula? Could Indian Love Call penetrate the air waves which are flooded with Houn...
...However, Rock Around the Clock, title tune of the film currently causing rock 'n' roll riots in Europe, is an ASCAP tune...
...with him, is a matter of principle, for his stand is firm. The first indication of this was in his judgment on the most recent incidents which he termed "a disgrace to Democrats, a disgrace to Republicans, and a disgrace to the nation." But his latest statement at Little Rock carried his firmness, reserved by most politicians for the North, deep into the camp of the Citizen's Councils: "The Supreme Court ... has determined unanimously that the Constitution does not permit segregation in the schools... I believe that decision to be right. Some of you feel strongly to the contrary...
This is to thank whom it may concern for the H-R Mixer. I enjoyed it immensely and love all Harvard men dearly--especially the drunken football player who thickly asks you "Ain't they got no rock and roll in this here town?"; the prep school boy who arrives with more money than manners and will no doubt leave with more of the former and even less of the latter; the Big Man from Texas who tells you how to remember his name by shortending it to A. Wolf, and then with a great little gleam...