Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boston radio stations and newspapers carried elaborate stories yesterday describing the Hanover plight. Two senior stars, it seems, will miss Saturday's game against Harvard because of injuries. End Bill Calhoun, the team captain, suffered a hip-point injury against Brown last week, and halfback Paul Klungess has a charlie horse...
...quaver with psychedelic patterns, a sword springs from nowhere, an orange fountain gushes from center stage, a tenor flies into the flies. The singing, which requires a display of vocal acrobatics that few performers can successfully negotiate, was excellent. Loudest bravas went to Christa Ludwig, whose lusty soprano and hip-swinging histrionics had bite and conviction...
Variety, too, contributes to the vogue. Whereas men, in 150 years of pants wearing, have managed to add little more than cuffs and a crease, women in the past few years have rung changes beyond belief. Trousers come belled or straight, hip hugging or waist level. Materials range from daytime wool, gabardine or leather to evening silk, velvet, lame and brocade. Jackets are single-or double-breasted, come to the hips, to the top of the thighs, to the knees...
Back at 4. The flash point was the routine arrest, in a Negro neighborhood, of a twice-convicted Negro car thief suspected of a third offense. When the suspect broke and ran, a policeman dropped him with two shots in the hip and side. The action naturally pulled a crowd, but it was neither large nor truculent. Among the curious onlookers, however, was Carmichael. "We're tired of these racist police killing our people," he shouted. "We're going to be back at 4 o'clock and tear this place...
...London Sunday Express's writer, though conceding that Anne does have "the young idea when she's off duty." Well, did that mean miniskirts? Not at all. In Jamaica with Prince Charles for the Commonwealth Games, she made the scene in a pair of good-looking hip-huggers and a Dutch-boy cap. What's more, says Anne, after boarding school she wants to go to Sussex University, one of Britain's new non-snob colleges...