Word: skips
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Southern Negroes who in the last 50 years developed the new form from the work songs of slave days. The recording includes singers like Sleepy John Estes, Bukka White, Peg Leg Howell, Ham Gravy, and Kokomo Arnold (with his wild falsetto). Not all the songs are as rural as Skip Jones's Little Cow and Calf Is Gonna Die Blues...
Would-be summer wonks had better skip the Loeb production of "Love's Labour's Lost." Otherwise, like Ferdinand of Navarre, they might realize the folly of spending one's life in bookish pursuits and come to bemoan those "barren tasks, too hard to keep--Not to see ladies, study, fast, not sleep...
...inning later the Crimson broke the tie. Del Rossi popped to short center but found himself on second base when Eli shortstop Robin Cody dropped the ball. Skip Falcone singled to left, and George Neville brought them both in with a long double to right...
Second baseman Skip Falcone got the big hit of the inning, a three run homer to left. The Crimson scattered 11 hits throughout the game. Shortstop Tom Bilodeau, pitcher Paul Del Rossi and right fielder Mike Patrick each went two for four as every Crimson player except outfielder George Neville hit safely at least once...
...Subject Was Roses, by Frank D. Gilroy. It takes a quiet patience to hear a heart beat or skip a beat. It takes the gentlest of touches to put a compassionate finger on the place where people love and hurt one another, the spot where the human skin is less than skin-deep. As Who'll Save the Plowboy? suggested in 1962, and as The Subject Was Roses further confirms, Frank D. Gilroy is the sort of playwright who possesses these qualities...