Word: talking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Peace Stocks. Besides bringing G.I.s home, the war's end would free other draft-age Americans to pursue normal civilian careers and resume buying autos and houses. Those possibilities are reviving talk in Detroit of 10 million-car sales years. On Wall Street, shares of companies involved in construction have become favored "peace stocks...
...best rally in more than a year. The Dow Jones industrial average rose four points to close at a year's high of 961.61. All told, the 38-point rise since late April was the Dow's best performance since 13 months ago-when peace talk was also...
...rough Kenner up and leave him for dead, he is helped out by a quaint little street urchin (Ricky Cordell) and his humanistic Mom (Madlyn Rhue). After a couple of weeks of tender care from Junior and loving from Mom, Kenner is ready to resume his mission. All that talk around the house about karma and reincarnation, however, has cramped his vindictive style. From bar to bordello, Kenner's search for the villains is stymied by long second thoughts on such weighty matters as bloody retribution, fatherhood and even marriage...
...Such trips involve whispers, a confusion of lights, pound notes exchanging hands, presences, but most typically a shabby street that could never be found again and a plunge down a dim staircase. At the bottom, a door. Closed, heavy, guarding the Platonic idea of door. Inside, music, smoke, cadenced talk as pungent as the smoke, and with it a sniff of corruption, a hint of menace. The scene may actually be a TV director's fashionable flat. It may be a club where acid-heads meet. It may be an African gambling house. Wherever it is, Maclnnes' name...
Each of these three books begins where a cold sociological observation rubs against a poetic perception of slangy slumside talk. Teen-age talk particularly. Years before anyone else had noticed, Maclnnes stopped and listened to the English kids. Their songs and entire culture, he saw, were rocking out in accents more than half American. Years before the Beatles, he predicted (in the memorable essay "Young England, Half English") exactly what the Beatles would sound like and be like...