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Lonnie Corder, a 19-year-old University of Oklahoma freshman, recently placed a classified ad in the Oklahoma Daily: "Are your parties a little dull? Rent a hippie. Nothing that will spoil the atmosphere, just add that little aesthetic flavor." Now, at $10 an hour, some affluent gentry of Norman, Okla., are renting the longhairs of the counterculture to decorate their parties. Thus, presumably in a triumph of free enterprise, a student whose parents have cut him off for looking like a freak can work his way through college by being...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Rent A Hippie | 4/5/1971 | See Source »

...FOUNDATION PAID CONNALLY $225,000 WHILE GOVERNOR." The New York Times headline last week was modest in size, but it carried the unmistakable flavor of expose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Non-Expos | 2/15/1971 | See Source »

...theme-in the telling, reason's rule is absolute. This can be a chilly virtue as well as a limiting one, but the limits are generous in Davies' case. His perceptions are wry and tough. The description of one of Ramsay's friends gives the flavor: "He was the quintessence of the Jazz Age . . . It was characteristic of Boy throughout his life that he was always the quintessence of something that somebody else had recognized and defined." Davies' minor characters-in particular an outrageous old Jesuit-are excellent. His work, including three other novels, six plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Solitary Voyage | 1/11/1971 | See Source »

...caroler, who hurriedly explains, "I MEAN NOEL! NOEL! (Sorry, my music was backwards)." A card with the message IF A BIG FAT MAN CREEPS IN SOME NIGHT AND STUFFS YOU INTO A BAG, DON'T WORRY ... I TOLD SANTA I WANTED YOU FOR CHRISTMAS! has a nice urban flavor in these times of worry about law-and-order...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: IN (FAINT) PRAISE OF CHRISTMAS CARDS | 12/21/1970 | See Source »

...brighter than Pewter Pot's. The menu is also twice as extensive. A silver-haired, grandmotherly woman will smile and bring you coffee while your waitress waddles over in her Elizabethan pantaloons. A glance down the menu reveals nothing exotic-just square Middle American fare. The only ethnic flavor maybe is a pale, faint hint of Pennsylvania Dutch that is suggested by the filling hot sandwiches and gravybread. The hot roast beef sandwich comes with a good bowl of French onion soup, the sopped bread floating on the top. Even if it does not quite match the Maitre Jacques version...

Author: By Thomas Geoghegan, | Title: The Square As You Like It | 12/8/1970 | See Source »

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