Word: commonical
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tree-shaded Boston Common has been a cherished redoubt for the city's weary ever since British troops evacuated it 192 years ago. This summer it is being occupied by an antiforce, as hippies from all over the U.S. invade it for what may be the flagging flower world's last great love-in. They spend their days singing, sleeping and making love. As the hot weather sets in, they frolic in the Frog Pond or listen to rock concerts by such groups as the Ultimate Spinach...
...Common Marriage. Most of the 1,300 nomads who have been drawn to "BossTown," as they call it, are not so ambitious. Moreover, as in San Francisco and New York, the hippie ranks have been infiltrated by hoodlums and narcotics peddlers. "They aren't the classy hippies, the beatniks or bohemians," says Detective Sergeant Richard Crowley, whose District 2 includes the Common. "Many of them are just criminal types." Police have become alarmed by the peddling and use of drugs in the Common, and since April 1, some 600 hippies-or pseudo hippies-have been arrested on rape, robbery...
Reacting to mounting civic fear, Mayor White slapped a 10 p.m. to 7 a.m. antiloitering curfew on the Common. To protest the curfew, some 300 hippies held a candlelight parade through the Common, encouraging bystanders to join. Unfortunately, some of the joiners were teen-age thugs, and in a prolonged melee that flashed off and on for three days, 34 were arrested. Police said that only six of them were authentic hippies...
Having been forced to evacuate the Common at night, the hippies have been given squatting rights in the Fens, a park behind the city's Museum of Fine Arts. Last week they held a typically unorthodox, nonlegal wedding presided over by a minister from the hippies' own Neo-American Church. The bride wore printed culottes and a necklace of appleseeds; the barefoot groom was in tattered Levi's and a Nehru jacket. After the ceremony, they danced to a throbbing rock band, then left for a protracted honeymoon on the Common...
...badly shaken by the May riots. In foreign affairs, for example, no shifts in policy and no mitigation of Gaullist diplomatic arrogance are in sight. In fact, under the chauvinistic new Foreign Minister Michel Debre, French abrasiveness may well increase. The chances for Britain to get into the Common Market are as remote as ever. Nor is there any likelihood that France will heed the plea of Common Market President Jean Rey to abandon the right to veto major proposals and to give the Market's supranational agencies more power to regulate trade. As Common Market Vice President Sicco...