Word: dropout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Ramparts Dropout...
...door. The barrenness of the outer meeting room contrasted sharply with the rich carpet and shiny desks in the main office. Ferguson, dressed in chinos and a wine-colored sport shirt, insisted on being called "mister." Like most of Alliance's 200 members, he is a high school dropout. Since Ferguson had to go to a meeting, he sent me to talk to Sam Bell, Alliance's president...
What makes it more impressive is that Schuller was a high school dropout, and is a completely self-taught composer ("I learned from the best teachers, the scores themselves"). The son of a New York Philharmonic violinist, he became a professional French horn player at 16, at 19 started a 14-year stint with the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. All the while, he composed prolifically. even scribbling notes during rests at performances...
...bright red Dior suit, she toured the town with all the aplomb of a grand lady at her leisure. Daniel Chester French's famous Minuteman statue, she mused, "is rather splendid, though full of youthful literalism." Thoreau, she observed, is "a hero of the hippies, a dedicated dropout who was turned on by nature." Deftly summing up Hawthorne's stories as "tales of the dire results of invading the privacy of someone's secret heart," she added tartly that Hawthorne once confessed that he found Thoreau " 'tedious, tiresome and intolerable'-which he probably...
Linda Fitzpatrick, 18, the suburban dropout who was murdered with her latest hippie boy friend in a Greenwich Village basement earlier this month, confessed that she was hooked on the drug, and may indeed have been lured to her death by a promise of the stuff. The number of speeders-called "speed freaks," "meth freaks," "meth monsters," or "meth heads"-has, according to the hippies, increased enormously within recent months. Researchers writing in the Journal of the American Medical Association estimate that in San Francisco alone, 4,000 people regularly inject themselves with powerful amphetamines...