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...simplistic as his Goldwater conservatism-but, like the faith of most converts, totally sincere. As TIME Correspondent Arthur White learned when he visited Hess recently, the man seems to be practicing the classical, nonviolent anarchism he advocates. Hess owns little more than welding tools and the blue denim clothes on his back. "I had a bicycle," he admits, "but it was stolen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Means and Extremes | 5/19/1975 | See Source »

Everybody wants a piece of Uncle Sam Lumen, even though he is practically 90. The President of the U.S. is after Sam's famous name for a National Child Center. At the denim end of the political fabric, a band of radical youths known as the Children of Liberty arrogantly demand his support against the Establishment. In between, friends, disciples and devotees strive to keep old Sam buttoned to their own self-interest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: September Song | 3/24/1975 | See Source »

Booted and largely bespectacled throngs of long-haired teenagers dressed in the neuter hues of khaki and denim, waltz in the aisles passing fruit and sunflower seeds. Joni's arrival turns the camp town meeting into a sing-along chautauqua. After the concert, the fans mass around the main stage exit to wait for Joni, and when she appears they voice timid hellos, give her bouquets or simply smile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll's Leading Lady | 12/16/1974 | See Source »

Very nice for the early '50s, only Huxley was not wearing gray flannel but blue denim. As he explained to a friend, his wife had made him change his pants in the manuscript because "she thought I ought to be better dressed for my readers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Blue Genes | 12/2/1974 | See Source »

...didn't practice yesterday, but he went down to watch the team work out. As he left his room in Mather House for the stadium, Curtin threw a book of Yeats into a denim satchel...

Author: By Steven M. Heller, | Title: Peter Curtin: Does 'Yeats' Rhyme With 'Cleats'? | 11/13/1974 | See Source »

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