Word: whoop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There's a little place in East Cambridge--it used to be a synagogue--where Portuguese Americans whoop it up every Friday night. Ernie Souza's combo plays in one corner and a bar stretches along the back wall. As Al Vellucci enters, the noise and the laughter shifts towards the door...
WAYNE FONTANA AND THE MINDBENDERS: THE GAME OF LOVE (Fontana). Manchester's Mindbenders mind their rhythm 'n' blues as they holler "The purpose of a man is to love a woman," and then whoop, "Come on, baby, let's play the game of love." They are equally exuberant as they beat out Keep Your Hands Off My Baby and Girl Can't Help...
...British withdrawal from the colony, he earns the reader's deepening respect by judging the Africans who are coming to power by the same standards. If there is a moral to the book, it is the mild one that the African politicians who shout for reform and whoop up riots are essentially the same sort of men as the British consuls they are replacing. Novelist Fowler, who was a colonial officer in Asia and Africa for 30 years, allows himself only the faintest nostalgia; the best of his Africans is a fine old chief who cannot adjust...
Unimposing Sounds. What he's thinking is very much his own. "You cain't roller-skate in a buffalo herd," suggests his favorite song, "but you can be happy if you've a mind to." In a twangy baritone that is happy scatting, whoop-whooping, country yodeling or just plain singing, he has recorded 25 songs on two LPs, all but one of them his own. But somehow his name is not widely known. It is probably because he does not impose himself, any more than he imposes his lyrics...
...friend saw Vice President Hubert Humphrey hurrying across the White House grounds. "Yes, Virginia," he cried with a whoop of laughter. "There is a Vice President." Hubert stopped as if he had been struck by lightning, finally managed a weak grin and hurried...