Word: shook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...lovers and notables waited in a school courtyard in the small French Riviera town of Vallauris. The master, as usual unimpressed by ceremony, arrived dressed in faded corduroy pants, yellow shirt and bright orange scarf. Pablo Picasso bussed his good friend, Communist Boss Maurice Thorez, on both cheeks, then shook hands with Director of French Museums Georges Salles, down from Paris for the occasion -the unveiling of Picasso's much heralded 32-by-29-ft. mural for UNESCO's new Paris headquarters. Picasso yanked the cord, pulling back the concealing curtain. The result was a surprise to Picasso...
...gangs in the city are the Cobras, half of whose 40 to 50 members live in a Brooklyn housing project. All but a few of them are Negro; there are separate Puerto Rican gangs, and thoroughly integrated ones. The members are, in their own language, all "shook up" and cling together for defense against others as well as for the comradeship they can find nowhere else. They range in age from eleven to 20, occupy themselves chiefly with the protection of their own "turf" (territory). Trespassing on one gang's turf by another gang-or the stealing of another...
...fitful attempts to wean the youngsters away from such influences, the New York City school system fights an uphill battle, succeeds to a fairly high degree. The city runs five "600" schools especially for the shook-up, but even these schools lack the necessary facilities for coping with the job alone. Many experts agree that these schools-as well as a new category, "700" schools for the worst troublemakers (TIME, Mar. 17)-are going to need more support from the tangled web of the city government's bewildered bureaucracy. Police and churches, too, come in for a share...
...those little ones coming up. They're the real problem. Something's got to be done about them, or I don't know where we'll be at." Stoney, a leading bopper in his day, was not fooling. Only recently, he was attacked by three shook-up gang members...
...talk religion with the most devout, but he has not practiced Roman Catholicism since his high school days ended his formal education. Though Hollywood seems a most unlikely place to have produced the author of Little Moon, he was raised there, played some bit parts as a child, shook off the "meaningless" glamour at 19 to go to Manhattan, "the Mecca of the artist...