Word: hanged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Betelgeuse. Hippies, college students and Eastern sophisticates are not the only people who look on him as a parvenu from the prairies. Living in grandiose isolation at either end of an axis that stretches from the Pedernales to the Potomac, Johnson is a stranger to the put-downs and hang-ups (terms he would probably not comprehend) of a populace that digs op and pop art, Valleys of Dolls in paperback and microskirts in the front office...
...tell it's all right, so I'll tell you something. I get a lot of calls from crackpots and curiosity seekers . . ." The result, as it was with all the other ardent seekers of love partners she called, was nil, and they wondered about what kind of hang-up it was that made her call...
...family stock. Before graduation from high school, he is drinking at least episodically-along with more than three-fourths of the student body. Like the hippie minority, most youthful drinkers stick to wine and beer, possibly because liquor is regarded as the old folks' hang-up but more probably because the lighter drinks are easier on the pocket and the throat...
From foolish permissiveness to foolish repressiveness, too many American middle-class parents careen downward from the joys of birth to the final whimper, "What did we do wrong?" The hard answer is that failed parents tend to be failed people who use children for their own emotional hang-ups. They never stop, look or listen to the kids; they never grasp that parenthood is a full-time job, perhaps the most important job in a chronically changing America. They never see the challenge: teaching a child integrity-the self-respect that makes for strong, kind men and women...
...piece by the same person in the same issue, it often insists on a pseudonym. Freelance Writer Ken Purdy contributed two articles to a recent Playboy, one under his own name, one under that of Karl Prentiss. Even when they give up their real names, pseudonymists often like to hang on to their real initials...