Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Although I myself believed the journalism expos was just as good a writing course as any other section, one of the committee members felt the course was geared to 'hip' writing rather than developing clear, felicitous prose," he said. "Another member felt the course had no place in the curriculum of a University where courses in applied music and drama were forbidden," he said...
...most highly respected figure in Arizona politics. He endorsed Steiger, who had already won the support of Senator Fannin. Throwing aside all caution, Conlan further provoked Goldwater by telling a reporter: "I don't know what it is with Barry. Maybe it's the pain [from a hip operation]. Maybe it's the drinking he's been doing." The outraged Goldwater struck back: "I've had all I can take from this guy. I'd hate to serve in the U.S. Senate with him. He's never been honest in politics. He just...
...stands for (a) hard, horny, hairy and hip, (b) head, heart, hearth and hope, (c) head, heart, hands and health, (d) helpless, hyper, hideous and hectic, (e) a four-cylinder Massey-Harris tractor...
...mentor Dior in 1957 at the age of 21, he has produced a series of highly successful-and often outrageous-designs, such as the Trapeze (1958) and the hobble skirt (1959). When the couturier opened his own house in 1962, he went on to launch tuxedos for women, hip boots, visor caps and, most recently, last spring's Ballets Russes collection...
What is this emotional malaise for which domesticated Americans pay the day-to-day price? Here again Guest is conventional. Too much self-control, she implies, too little trust of one's feelings. Thus the nearest to a savior the novel boasts is a flip-hip psychiatrist who eats doughnuts, drinks awful instant coffee and shares the floor with his patients because he can't afford a couch. His message to Conrad comes perilously close to the slogan of the '60s: LET IT ALL HANG OUT. Guest's alternate solution: the love of a good woman...