Word: wolfish
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Less sophisticated conservatives seize upon Seeger's style with just the opposite objection. They claim he garbs his wolfish political views in the sheep's clothing of naivete. They argue that Seeger--a former student at Exeter and Harvard--only poses as "one of the folk" to market his left wing views through folk songs, and that the appeal of seemingly innocent songs promotes the acceptance of dangerous anti-Americanism...
Holding a rolled newspaper in his right hand, flashing baby-blue eyes and a wolfish grin, he states his theme and takes off like a jazz musician on a flight of improvisation-or seeming improvisation. He does not tell jokes one by one, but carefully builds deceptively miscellaneous structures of jokes that are like verbal mobiles. He begins with the spine of a subject, then hooks thought onto thought; joke onto dangling joke, many of them totally unrelated to the main theme, till the whole structure spins but somehow balances. All the time he is building toward a final statement...