Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...talk when addressing white banquets nor donned a dashiki to convince his fellow blacks that he had soul. He was always an individual, difficult to classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet and Playwright Imamu Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) wept. "There is a loss here...
Picture it: Kevin Petitt cruising in on right wing, across the blue line. Then, a Crimson defense man throws a hip check and the Cornell forward is sitting on the ice. Section 18 goes wild...
...Honky!" "Male chauvinist!") to produce spit. More stammer than grammar, as Dwight Macdonald put it, the counterculture makes inarticulateness an ideal, debasing words into clenched fists ("Right on!") and exclamation points ("Oh, wow!"). Semantic aphasia on the right, semantic aphasia on the left. Between the excesses of square and hip rhetoric the language is in the way of being torn apart...
...characters in Dealing are cutouts from Time and Life. Like the magazines, they are slick, phony, packaged. So is the book. And the book is also dangerous, because the Crichtons have added hip sociology to the recipe. For example...
...least that's what seems to be happening. You can't really be sure because Harkness speaks in what is meant to pass for hip street talk. Maybe Brother Michael wrote the plot outline and Brother Douglas translated it. At any rate, the writing in Dealing seems unrelated to anything spoken in real life. Consider...