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Integrated Songs. However much white America has tried to segregate the Negro, mentally and physically, he has not stayed segregated. His slang, his poetry, his music (which Ellison fondly explores in a number of essays) have permeated and profoundly influenced white culture for the better: "Southern whites cannot walk, talk, sing, conceive of laws or justice, think of sex, love, the family or freedom without responding to the presence of Negroes...
Sometimes the humor seems forced, the North Country slang impenetrable. And, in truth, a more exciting and at the same time more perceptive view of a Beatle's insular existence is projected in a documentary feature titled What's Happening!-The Beatles in the U.S.A. Made with near-perfect fidelity by Albert and David Maysles, a brother team of American independent film makers who shot it on the spot with a handheld camera and portable sound gear, this bristling, hilarious account of the sound and fury generated during a public-appearance tour was shown on British television...
...best friend is her pony, and that goes dapple for Princess Anne, 13, who comes from such horsy stock that Dad is sporting an arm in a sling as a result of his third polo spill in 13 months. His only daughter put on a J.G.S. (school slang for jolly good show) representing her school, Benenden, for the first time at a local meet. She took a piebald named Jester over the jumps to win a red rosette (winning team) in the combined competition, picked up yellow (tie third) in junior dressage...
...scarper is to make off, to run away, to escape, in Irish slang. And to scarper is what the young Brendan Behan must often have dreamed of doing in the six years he spent soberly behind bars, rather than convivially touring them. He put those dreams to good use in this merry and murderous mock-suspense story about a professional impresario of escapes at work in the underworld of Dublin, and Paris...
...term derives from telegraphers' slang for the Morse code signaling...