Word: charleston
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...learned the Charleston from F. Scott Fitzgerald...
Miller himself indeed worked as a proofreader ("a white-collar coolie") for the Paris edition of the Chicago Tribune, was attached to a little magazine, not transition but Booster, and danced not the Charleston but a fandango along the gutters, in the brothels, bistros and mansards of Montparnasse. In telling about it all. he establishes the hardly original thesis that being broke is very hard work and that panhandling-working as cut-rate gigolo, or becoming valet-pimp to a parsimonious Parsee-can involve more shame and chicanery than the whole career of a Babbitt or a Cash McCall...
...Demonic Influence." Kayden was protesting Sewanee's decision to award another honorary degree to a famed alumnus ('25): Editor Thomas R. Waring of the Charleston, S.C.. News and Courier, the South's most segregationist newspaper. Kayden was not alone. One former South Carolina Episcopal minister, now living in Ohio, was so disgusted that Sewanee should give Waring a doctorate of civil law that he sent a brochure of Waring's writings to leading Episcopalians across the country. "Those who have lived in South Carolina," wrote the Rev. Ralph E. Cousins Jr., "can vouch...
...impeccable Charleston gentleman with an ante-bellum mind, Editor Waring fires on Fort Sumter every morning. He applauds Citizens Councils, mourns the fact that "even some Southerners-people who should know better-are saying that integration of the races is inevitable." As for the rest of the world ("the whiter they are the better the country"), his newspaper sees it in black and white. One recent editorial was titled "Who Cares What Asia Thinks?" Another, on South Africa, "that outpost of Western civilization," sympathized with white cops "whose lives were endangered by hordes of savages in modern dress." When Kenya...
...young Cuban musician named Eduardo Davidson wrote a song called La Pachanga. Havana's charanga groups (drums, flute, piano and strings) picked it up, and by the time the noise drifted north a year later, it was a dance whose gyrations suggested a meringue blended with the samba, Charleston and Bunny Hop. Early this year Bandleader José Fajado brought La Pachanga to the Palladium and Dancing Instructor "Killer Joe" Piro began teaching it there. Killer Joe feels that the dance is too complex for definition, but an executive of the Fred Astaire Dance Studios describes it easily...