Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Back in 1956, Wolf's tolerant eclecticism was challenged by one of the paper's founders, Norman Mailer, who thought the Voice was becoming too square. Mailer also suspected that Wolf was using typos to sabotage his column defending the hip way of life. When his phrase "nuances of growth" came out "nuisances of growth," Mailer quit the paper in a rage. The Voice's coverage of big local stories is often more balanced and thoughtful than the reporting in the dailies. The paper's criticism of the arts is also a match for the other...
Baker, who had been confined to his bed following a hip injury several months ago, died of pneumonia Saturday...
...however, was an indefatigable pair: Georgia's Senator Richard Russell, 69, and Senate Minority Leader Everett Dirksen, 70, who went on orating in their pajamas at Walter Reed Army Hospital. Russell was in for a routine physical, Dirksen for an operation to remove the surgical pins from the hip he fractured last spring. It looked as if they were getting set for a hot debate on Medicare...
...West. Today there is scarcely a city worthy of the name that does not have its own thriving cultural life. Chicago, for example, recently accepted the design for a massive sculpture by Pablo Picasso as the frontispiece for the new city center-a work that even the most hip of critics has had two thoughts about. Some of the most enterprising U.S. opera companies, who have scooped the Met time and again in importing distinguished foreign stars from Callas to Caballe, are in Dallas, Chicago and San Francisco. The Louisville Orchestra has recorded more works by modern U.S. composers than...
...experience confirms that really "spiritual" poetry stops being poetry pretty soon. It migrates from the particular to the universal too quickly to come down hard on the stuff of experience; it robs us of sensation and pays us back in the inflated currency of Concepts. Goldfarb is too hip, too conscious of what any reading audience wants, to bypass the senses. Maybe he appeals to them too often. We develop such faith in his experience -- such confidence in his brilliantly modulated rhetoric -- that we are willing to accept almost any statement as poetically valid, even passages where epigram takes...