Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such a stopper in the Paris fall fashion shows. Last week they saw it in the flesh at Alexander's couture-copy show. Out came the model, preening prettily in a floor-length drift of sheer black chiffon, with only a ruff of ostrich feathers around the hip to save it from moving out of the controversial category into the condemned. For customers who want the concoction, Alexander's was ready to supply a cop-out-a body stocking that would make the dress perfectly proper...
...comedy, and Watts ain't funny." Another Negro widow, played by Gail Fisher, will be a regular on the old private-eye series Mannix (CBS). A pair of new ABC adventure programs feature balanced tickets as well. The Mod Squad boasts three troublemaking dropouts who turn fuzz: one hip white chick (Peggy Lipton), one rebellious rich white boy (Michael Cole), and one ghetto black (Clarence Williams III). And The Outcasts are an odd couple of bounty hunters in the post-Civil War West. Don Murray plays a former slaveholder; Otis Young is a former slave. For viewers with more...
...Detector Test. Psychologists agree that every batch of fresh police recruits includes a small percentage who are attracted by the idea of force and like the feeling, as a retired officer in New Orleans put it, "that you carry half the power of God on your hip." Chicago's is one of a growing number of departments-about 10% of all the police agencies in the country-that employ sophisticated testing techniques to identify character disorders early...
...Hip Mythology. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test is a kind of nonfiction novel about Ken Kesey, the celebrated author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. It is a more serious and successful attempt to proselytize the antic way of freaky esthetics. It may even be considered the New Testament of hip mythology: Wolfe implies a likeness between Kesey and various religious figures-including Jesus Christ and Gautama Buddha. In 1964, Kesey forsook the literary world, having already established an LSD cult in La Honda, Calif. Wolfe records the events, carefully drawing religious parallels...
...inane because Sankey looked at the world, saw that it was not perfect, and plugged in the easiest wrong answers. Protest songs and rock music are hardly decadent--they represent a social and artistic commitment to our world. They, not "John Henry" are the songs of us folk, as hip Country and Western groups. Sure, folk music is often great and gutsy. But the simplistic Romantic anti-sellout sentiment it symbolizes in this play really equals the willful alienation of Sankey's hero, who speaks to no one, either in his stage world or in the audience world. An individual...