Word: hipping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...indignation we are meant to feel is undercut by the "cool" aspect of Duke's existence. Like James Bond, he and his companions appear to have a sort of moral license to enjoy the forbidden pleasures of promiscuity, drink, and bloody adventures. Their hip talk and brotherhood in crime have an alluring in-group quality. Miss Clarke allowed this deceptive appeal to enter her argument when she chose adolescent protagonists...
...jazz musician. He studied at the Juilliard School of Music, plays the saxophone with a jazz combo called the Upper Bohemians. But shortly after being discharged from the Army Air Corps in 1943, he signed up in Hans Hoffmann's painting classes. Rivers proved a hip but argumentative pupil. The canvas rectangle was then viewed as a neutral battleground whose every square inch must show the vital push and pull of his artistic struggle. How was it, Rivers wanted to know, that the greats of the past were good even in fragments...
...knows so many worlds that he is never an insider. Rojack is in limbo, always a familiar face, always tuned in on the less guarded secrets, but always a floater on the periphery, always a nose pressed against the glass. This is Rojack (and Mailer his shadow), much too hip to swing with the squares, but too close to power to call himself an outcast; doomed to a netherworld of liberal intellectuals, never in the back rooms with Mr. Big nor safe on a midnight street in Harlem...
Louis Armstrong, 64, took his golden trumpet-blew-and the Wall didn't come tumbling down. Never mind. It was a mighty blast anyway. Cheering throngs of East Berliners, from the youthful hip to the Party drip, shelled out a capitalistic 15 to 25 marks ($3.75 to $6.25) apiece just to soak up all that jazz. Playing to packed houses on his four-week trip behind the Iron Curtain, Satchmo neatly muted the inevitable questions on race and politics ("Some of my best friends are Southern whites," he grinned) and gave the Volk encores and encores of Blueberry Hill...
...Single Girl has outsold all its sister sex books because it talks hip. "It's not a study on how to get married," says Helen Brown, who married at a ripe 37, "but how to stay single in superlative style. How much safer to marry with the play out of his system and yours. It takes guts." Such words are calculated to allay the anxieties of the 14 million single women in the U.S., most of whom are perpetually nagged to get married...