Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...acting president, he squelched a student invitation to Alabama Governor George Wallace to address a campus meeting, on the grounds that it might cause a riot. The incident was apparently a case of "acting" jitters; when Brewster was finally named president, he resolved not to "shoot from the hip" again...
...based on class. The Mods are artisans and office workers, he claims, and look down on the Rockers, who tend to be scruffy worker types. As a London Mod explains the feud, "The Rockers are just interested in their cycles. This isolates them. Mods are more aware, fast moving, hip. With us, it's like a club. If you wear the right clothes, you're accepted...
...deserving tribute to a cat who is so authentically hip that one might say, after Monk: What is jazz...
Break from a Break. When he relayed his suicidal thoughts to his doctors, they hustled him into Manhattan's Payne Whitney Psychiatric Clinic for the summer. Hodgins had hardly gotten out when he found himself back in a hospital-this time with a broken hip, the result of a bathroom fall. It proved a lucky break. Although immobile once more, he was suffering at last from a socially approved ailment: a broken hip, he points out, is perfectly respectable, whereas a stroke or a breakdown is "loaded with connotations...
...from its Deep South beginnings. In Amsterdam, Monk and his men were greeted by a sellout crowd of 2,000 in the Concertgebouw, and their DÜsseldorf audience was so responsive that Monk gave the Germans his highest blessing: "These cats are with it!" The Swedes were even more hip; Monk played to a Stockholm audience that applauded some of his compositions on the first few bars, as if he were Frank Sinatra singing Night and Day, and Swedish television broadcast the whole concert live. Such European enthusiasm for a breed of cat many Americans still consider weird...