Word: weirdoes
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Congratulations and all that jazz to TIME on a real gasser of a story on that chick-loving weirdo I dig, that bug, Mort Sahl. "Wild...
Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz. He also mixes in a never-ending supply of phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target...