Word: shoop
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Duke (born Russell T.) Shoop, 53, political reporter, war correspondent, longtime (since 1933) Washington correspondent for the Kansas City Star; of a liver ailment; in Washington...
...gathering material for a definitive Linguistic Atlas of England in the Mid-Twentieth Century, Orton and his colleagues revealed that had Gertrude Stein only known the farmers of England, her celebrated "rose is a rose is a rose" might have read a "rose is a hep is a shoop is a schoop is a dog shoop...
...Kirson Weinberg, who saw in rock 'n' roll a manifestation of the insecurities of the age, added that "the effects of the music are more predominant in girls." Or perhaps it was that of the reader of the Denver Post who wrote: "This hooby doopy, oop-shoop, ootie ootie, boom boom de-addy boom, scoobledy goobledy dump-is trash...
...Brown and Clarence Chang, and the lyrics of Lucy Barry and company. Brown's first song, "Mother Knows Best" is a little too much of the brass musical to be comprehended by children, but adults roar with delight at the Broadway step and brash voices of Maryanne Goldsmith, Sally Shoop, and Anne Adams. Most of the other songs, which were written by Chang, are better suited to infant ears, and Brown redeems himself with the finale--"Flowers Are Dancing...
...does not dominate the stage, but her natural freshness and simplicity pervade the whole performance. Her dancing is light and graceful; even when she is downtrodden, she is never bedraggled. Miss Goldsmith's caustic voice is most appropriate for her rendition of the older sister. The younger sister, Miss Shoop, is somewhat less successful with her mouth hanging open all the time, although this seems more a matter of the director's misconception than Miss Shoop's perversity. The Step-mother, Miss Adams, has a little trouble overcoming an inadvertent smirk at the beginning, but she soon masters her urbanity...