Word: hipster
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...also adds a little bit of the nonconventional. In one piece, de la Durantaye traces the cultural significance of the elephant, from Paradise Lost to the eponymous White Stripes album. It was this piece that led the Advocate to label de la Durantaye a “hipster...
While de la Durantaye recognizes that being a hipster can sometimes be useful, he rejects the epithet for himself...
...English department is not a release party for a new soft drink, and there one does not wish to be singled out as a hipster,” he says...
...more than once with the problem of distinguishing himself from the students he teaches. One student, Dan P. Gilmore ’05, calls de la Durantaye a “young, dandy professor” with theatrical flair. An Advocate writer once labeled him a “hipster,” part of a generation of young English department hires who are “wildly unconventional.” For support, the Advocate mentioned de la Durantaye’s side job writing essays for The Village Voice...
...HIPSTER? NOT SO FAST