Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Somewhere along the way between Greenwich and the odd end of Greenwich Village, Linda took up with Groovy, who introduced her to the never-never world of drugs. Other hippies sensed that Linda was "not really hip." She had been around only since midsummer, and they considered her a newcomer, a "paranoid chick" who was frightened by the scene but was desperately trying to adapt. No one may ever know the full sequence of sordid events that ended her adaptation, but as police and hippies reconstructed the chain of circumstances that led to the murders of Groovy and Linda...
...miles from the corner of Hollywood and Vine. That undoubtedly accounts for the fact that while U.C.L.A. has produced five Rhodes scholars, it also holds the collegiate record for centerfold cuties in Playboy. Everything at U.C.L.A. is strictly widescreen. Its coeds are the cuddliest, its hippies are the hip-est (one commutes in a Continental convertible decorated with fluorescent flowers), and its football team was undefeated in its first four games-thanks mainly to a 21-year-old quarterback who looks like Marlon Brando, talks like Gary Cooper and plays like Our Gang...
There are infinite gradations on the hippie scale--from the down-and-out hip-bo to the Harvard student in flowered shirt to the young executive who likes to turn on. The Mayor finds it convenient to maintain that the hip-bo's are the sine qua non of the hippie movement. But in the treacly web of hippie contact and connection, everyone has communication with everyone and strict dependence...
...next few weeks, hip-bo's will be hunted mercilessly. On October 16 the City police will begin to enforce vagrancy laws: anyone who cannot provide evidence of his means of support will have to move out of the City, pay a fine, or serve a jail term. A source close to the Mayor reports that the police will stop anyone with a beard, moustache, or long hair. Apparently, the Mayor is taking pains not to involve the University in his war--a bursar's card will be sufficient evidence of not being a vagrant. But there are Harvard students...
...smoking grass on the Cambridge Common. "Smoking marijuana?" challenged the Mayor last week, taking a quick sip from his frappe. "Have you got proof? Our men say it was mostly tea leaves." Anyway, he added, "A raid there would have been a bust"--he means a failure--"because the hip-bo's left when they saw the police around. The hip-bo's are the ones we're after...