The Twist (song) The Twist (song) "The Twist" is an American pop song written and originally released in early 1959 (having been recorded on 11/11/1958) by Hank Ballard and the Midnighters as a B-side to "Teardrops on Your Letter". Ballard's version was a moderate 1960 hit, peaking at number 28 on the "Billboard" Hot 100. Chubby Checker's 1960 cover version of the song gave birth to the Twist dance craze. His single became a hit, reaching number 1 on the "Billboard" Hot 100 on September 19, 1960, where it stayed for one week, and setting a record as the only song to reach
Racism in the work of Charles Dickens the best known instances of racism is Dickens's portrait of Fagin in one of his most widely read early novels, "Oliver Twist", first published in serial form between 1837 and 1839. This portrayal has been seen by many as deeply antisemitic, though others such as Dickens's biographer G. K. Chesterton have argued against this notion. The novel refers to Fagin 257 times in the first 38 chapters as "the Jew", while the ethnicity or religion of the other characters is rarely mentioned. Paul Vallely wrote in "The Independent" that Dickens's Fagin in "Oliver Twist" —the Jew who runs a school