Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Goodman's dismay, literature has followed this same asocial pattern. Fictional characters either accept their social roles and concentrate on their personal lives (James Gould Cozzens), or they withdraw from society and lead the life of the beat, the hip, or the drugged...
...turned and bolted like a moose, followed by official Washington, gurgling hip-hip for happenings...
Novelist Herbert Gold, 39, has as cruel an eye for human foibles as Hieronymus Bosch, but his heart is awash with love of the world. At his best, this has made him a kind of romantic poet turned pitchman for the seamy side of life. Miraculously blending hip talk, shop talk, tough talk and the rumpled jargon of half-educated America, Gold often makes fun of the grotesques-con men, carnival barkers, sleazy hotel managers-who are his favorite characters. But he never treats them as victims of society. Their small limbo worlds take on the likeness of the great...
...Yorkers noted the day proclaimed in tribute to "that grand citizen," former Democratic Governor and U.S. Senator Herbert H. Lehman. Recuperating from a broken hip, Lehman spent his 85th birthday in a wheelchair, still enjoyed a Hotel Plaza dinner-dance for some 300 friends, a ceremony at home, then Scribner's publication of a Lehman biography by Historian Allan Nevins...
...Fujinaga had to go back to the beginning-he had to pry into the prawns' most intimate secrets. For reasons known only to themselves, the little creatures mate only between midnight and 3 a.m. on perfect summer nights in calm, untroubled water. Night after night Dr. Fujinaga waded hip-deep in his experimental saltwater pond, wielding only a flashlight. Not until 1940 did he see the first prawn mating ever witnessed by man. "The ritual is truly bewitching," he reported. "The male prawn first chases the female; then she molts, or undresses for him. The male next embraces...