Word: californianism
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...From activists to acidheads, they like to deride their elders as "stick-walkers" and "sellouts." Fond of such terms as "fragmentation" and "anomie" in sketching their melodramatic self-portraits, many of them assume an attitude that borders on nihilism. To the standard adult charge of youthful irresponsibility, a young Californian can reply, as Authors J. L. Simmons and Barry Winograd show in It's Happening, with the emotional outrage of a John Osborne character...
Neatly Isolated. Meanwhile, the student government, the teaching assistants union, the strike committee and the student newspaper all abandoned the strike. The Daily Californian argued that "the strike must not continue because it cannot win." Students were putting their trust in Heyns, it said, while warning that "he can look forward to a long period of conflict if he sells the student demonstrators down the river...
...press with such tasteless wordage about the President-unless the quotation is attributed to Nixon, say, or to Billy Graham or Governor Wallace, in which case it would be legitimate. But not an unnamed Coloradan. It's like saying, with considerable truth, that a Californian growled: "TIME editors are arrogant, bumptious, and not early so sophisticated or omniscient as hey like to think"-the growler being...
Some now defend the fashion on esthetic grounds. "You have this break between your pants and your shoes," explains a Los Angeles display artist. "Two textures. Why ruin it by sticking a third texture in between?" Others now give the trend Havelock Ellis overtones, agreeing, as one Californian puts it, that "hairs on the ankle look provocative." Some girls agree. "It looks sexy," says Rosalie Netter, in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. "You can see the bone structure, like finely chiseled stone," says Wisconsin Sophomore Karen Knauf...
...another sense, Marion Pike could be excused for a lack of political awareness. Although she is a third-generation Californian, she divides her time between her Los An geles home and a Paris studio, at times painting landscapes, but concentrating mostly on faces. A 5-ft. 2-in. dynamo whose canvases often turn out to be bigger than she is, Artist Pike has a widely established reputation as a portraitist. Her commissions have included paintings of Art Connoisseur Norton Simon and his family, Bob Hope (who owns more than 20 of her works), Washington's National Gallery Director John...