Word: taxi
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Miami convention standards, it was a quiet crowd. Business, grumbled a taxi driver, was "terrible. Them guys came to town with a ten-dollar bill and the Ten Commandments and they ain't busted one of them...
...with their "cockney" drivers: I see that you have fallen for the pernicious idea that all London workingmen drop their aitches . . . Unfortunately you are not alone in this habit. Our own BBC always finds it necessary ... to put "local" and plebeian language in the mouths of policemen, bus and taxi drivers, artisans and the "working class" in general. If TIME was a genuine student of the London scene, it would be aware that "cockney" idiom is almost extinct. This stigma of an elementary education has been eradicated to a great extent by a progressive educational system and improved social conditions...
...Germain des Prés, on the Left Bank, long-haired men and short-haired women worked diligently to keep the cult going. Bebop boîtes, hairdos, beards, evening gowns, newspapers, cocktails, hot-dog stands became "existentialist." An under-tipped taxi driver would curse: "Espèce d'existentialiste." Existentialism became a familiar tourist attraction, like the Folies-Bergere. Sartre, increasingly successful and respectable, occasionally deplored the popularizations of his fad-he even felt compelled to move out of his favorite café, the Flore, to escape the tourists' vulgar stares. Last week existentialism took its ultimate...
This seemed to conclude the interesting part of the morning shows the majority of the 40 assorted taxi-drivers, ministers, old ladies, and other onlookers hurried out. But a few remained to see if Shubow and his associates could successfully challenge the constitutionality of a 1919 Massachusetts statute making it a crime to advocate the overthrow of the Commonwealth by force...
...found white-mustached Ambassador Alberto Serrano Pellé mowing his lawn. When she asked asylum, the ambassador curtly refused. There was a sharp argument.* "Thank you," snapped Evelyn, "I won't forget this." Serrano shouted: "I won't forget it either!" Desperate, Evelyn ran out, hailed a taxi and went to the Ecuadorian embassy, which she had previously feared to try because the Seguridad had guards on watch outside. Suddenly ordering the driver to stop, she skipped in the side door past three flatfooted Seguridad sentinels. Inside, she got a quick "Yes" from the ambassador and a warm...