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...Hipsters were usually middle-class white youths seeking to emulate the lifestyle of the largely-black jazz musicians they followed. But the subculture grew, and after World War II, a burgeoning literary scene attached itself to the movement: Jack Kerouac and poet Allen Ginsberg were early hipsters, but it would be Norman Mailer who would try and give the movement definition. In an essay titled "The White Negro," Mailer painted hipsters as American existentialists, living a life surrounded by death - annihilated by atomic war or strangled by social conformity - and electing instead to "divorce oneself from society, to exist without...
...call, Lucia Whalen, an employee of Harvard Magazine, tells the police dispatcher that she saw two gentlemen "pushing the door in" to the home and that the screen door had been broken. When asked by the dispatcher if the men were white, black, or Hispanic, Whalen said that one of the individuals looked "kind of Hispanic" but that she was unable to see the other clearly...
While Whalen has not publicly commented on Gates' arrest thus far, her lawyer said in a phone interview with the Boston Globe this past weekend that her client was "personally devastated" by media reports suggesting that she was prompted to call police because the men were black. Police reports of the incident state that Whalen saw "what appeared to be two black males with backpacks on the front porch" trying to break into the home, but Police Commissioner Robert C. Haas told the Globe that the report was a summary based on information and inquiries not necessarily compiled from...
Defiantly and accurately proclaiming, “I'm still standing," John strutted around the stage like a fabulous hobbit, decked out in a black coat emblazoned with the sparkling image of a yellow brick road on the back. Through a thrilling display of rock and roll at its finest, climaxing with a thunderous rendition of "Rocket Man," Sir Elton showed why he is music royalty...
...solo portion of the set, and he rose to the occasion. While his pianist and showman skills can’t rival John’s, you'd be hard-pressed to find a better opening number than "Angry Young Man," in which Joel exploded through the pitch black in a burst of light and fury, maniacally pounding the keys as he announced his arrival. But flashiness isn’t Joel’s game. Unlike the aristocratic Elton, whose immense individual skill outshines everything else in the stadium, Billy’s at his most entertaining when he?...