Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eating most of their food themselves, and never got together again after Mayor Hayes of Cambridge busted them up in his November purge. Headquarters East was a business enterprise that organized no one. And Avatar was published by a tight clique of friends who were interested in reaching the hip people but not in becoming public property. Its editor, Wayne Hanen, was so bombarded with plans to turn his newspaper into a house organ to organize the community that he retreated and let Avatar print the diaries of his neighbors and their children...
After a year of lacking self-confidence and purpose, the hip community is being organized and given a sense of identity. In Boston this work is being done by the City Police. In Cambridge it's being done by a man named Tony Fleming and an idea called the Family...
...Police Force did in one night at Columbia. With a series of harrassments in which police officers didn't let hippies sit on the Boston Common or stand idle in the streets around Beacon Hill and in which over 200 arrests have been made, the city has given the hip people something to feel together about...
Fleming does it to give people, especially hip people, a place to meet and get to know each other. There are a lot of new people moving into Boston, he points out, and the free concerts bring them together so they can do things...
...trying to spread it all over the country. "Boston is the next place where people are coming together to form a community. From that community will come an idea." He sees the new Boston radio station WBCN and his concerts as two things that will help organize the hip community...