In response to:
Swinging from the May 6, 1965 issue
To the Editors:
Your recent correspondent, Cal Kolbe Nossiter, in attempting to correct Philip Rahv’s nominal use of “hip” merely proliferates the error by identifying the term “hip” as a variant of “hep.” Anyone familiar with the jazz scene (or anyone familiar with my recent dictionary of jazz slang, A Jazz Lexicon) knows that the word has always been “hip,” and that “hep” is hopelessly square.
Robert S. Gold
Jersey City, New Jersey
This Issue
May 20, 1965
This Issue
May 20, 1965
