Word: swingingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many performers must take the stand during a given Festival concert that none of them gets a chance to play for more than an hour; some have less than thirty minutes. For a musician who is a slow starter, a tiny time segment can be fatal. Even groups which swing from the moment they start to play need time to establish their own mood. The size of the crowd precludes any real give-and-take between audience and artist beyond the mass-meeting variety...
...slalom event, the skier attempts to swing around six buoys staggered on either side of the boat wake. In the men's division, the skier enters the course at 30 m.p.h. for his first pass and at 32, 34, and 36 m.p.h. after that until he misses a buoy. Any skier who has successfully navigated the course at these speeds continues to pile up consecutive buoys by running through on tow lines shortened in six foot increments...
...before Hugh Hefner's Playboy Club opened, I received a telephone call from his secretary, asking me to translate a sentence into Latin for him. When she revealed his desire to emulate Horace and rear a lasting monument by putting on his door "If you don't swing, don't ring" in deathless Latin chased in metal, I explained in vain the impossibility of translating slang. So I came up with Si non oscillas noli tintinnare and forgot about...
Cultural Death. In the years since innocent Ira Gershwin wrote Little Jazz Bird, the jazz audience has changed even more remarkably than the music it worships. The 50 or so shrinelike nightclubs across the U.S. that book nothing but modern jazz combos are ghostly reminders of the lost swing and jump clubs. There is none of the throbbing, wailing excitement that jazz grew up on, and very little of the old, wild fun. The ennui flows like wine in the new midnight world (no one would dream of dancing), and the hush is nearly deafening...
...Wagner may not be the game's worst gloveman (unlike Yogi Berra, he has never let a descending fly ball conk him on the head), but the tag of "Butcher" has stuck with him through three ball clubs and five big-league seasons. What Wagner does best is swing a bat lefthanded, and last week he was swinging well enough to tie for second in home runs (15), rank third in RBIs (46), and third in batting...