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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rome. Piccolo Mondo, two blocks from the Via Veneto, at 39 Via Aurora. A favorite hangout of movie people, so it is tops for that great American game of celebrity watching. A typical luncheon might consist of bucatini alia a matriciana (tubes of pasta in a sauce of tomatoes and bacon), trout au gratin, and a dessert of torta St. Honore. With house wine, service and cover, the bill will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: What Fielding Missed | 6/6/1969 | See Source »

...first night on Miami Beach I found myself in a grunjy teen-age hangout semi-filled with its regulars. Music from a tape-recorder on a table in the center of the room with a huge lampshade hanging right over, filled with a disturbingly weak bulb. The music was unmentionable top-40 staple. The girl in rapacious charge of the tape-recorder brutally cut short "Hey Jude" saying "I don't like that song at all" to a general chorus of approval. Walls covered with Gauguinesque posters and Peanuts homilies. The kids didn't dance but twitched spasmodically on their...

Author: By Salahuddin I. Imam, | Title: The Miami Pop Festival: Silver Linings Galore in the Faint Cloud Over Rock | 1/22/1969 | See Source »

What seems to attract young people nowadays is Hesse's preoccupation with Eastern mysticism and his soul-racked characters, who suffer from that now common malaise of the under-30 generation, the identity crisis. Not far from the Berkeley campus, a favorite hangout is a beer joint called Steppenwolf, so named by its original owner (Max Scherr) because that novel symbolizes the loneliness of the intellectual. At Harvard, where Hesse's books sell better than any of his contemporaries except Faulkner, Senior Joel Kramer says: "Reading him is a gut, emotional experience." Adds Harvard Graduate Student Mark Granovetter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Outsider | 10/18/1968 | See Source »

...with a Negro. "In the beginning," she said, "I was trying to prove something to myself, a reaffirmation of the liberal beliefs I had been brought up under." The beliefs didn't carry her far enough. The one time that her black beau took her to a Negro hangout, she found "the language was incredible. But he couldn't say anything because then he would be labeled a 'white nigger.' " Adds Georgia sadly: "I guess the real problem was me. I didn't belong in his world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Modern Living: Black & White Dating | 7/19/1968 | See Source »

...Angeles anchor desk, though broadcasting election news right along, did not report the shooting until 12:26. The CBS network had already signed off, and most of its affiliated stations were carrying late movies. At CBS New York headquarters, key staffers were relaxing across the street at their hangout bar; it was 21 minutes after the shots before the network returned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newscasting: What Was Going On | 6/14/1968 | See Source »

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