Word: hipster
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Once a year or so, the popular-music business falls into a faint, and the only thing that can bring it around again is a new sound. The new sound quickly becomes every hipster's new groove and everybody imitates it until even little children no longer care to listen. Last year the twist was replaced by the bossa nova, but as things turned out, it was a case of a starving man rescuing one who was merely hungry. Business faded...
...suave, flippant score was just right for the genteel hipster hero it accompanied, and with its reed melodies and assertive, five-piece, rhythm-section backing, it was distinctive enough to be heard by itself. In fact, an LP record of Peter Gunn themes has sold an astonishing 750,000 copies...
...benefit of a London newsman bemused by U.S. argot, Novelist Norman (The Naked and the Dead) Mailer, 38, set out to distinguish between hipsters and beatniks. Although the two groups "share a common experience and understand each other's language." pontificated Mailer, "they're utterly different. The hipster is a man of action, always on the move; the beatnik is contemplative, an amateur philosopher. Among world figures today, Kennedy is hip but won't admit it and Khrushchev is hip but doesn't know it." What about British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan? "Irreclaimably square...
...henchmen of the governor's wife, he is servile; he cringes and begs without pride, knowing that he is more useful alive than dead. Michaels is in complete control of his character and of the stage. Occasionally he lapses into the speech and body movement of a hipster, which, though not really inconsistent with the character, strain one's powers of comprehension. But there is no question that he is a professional...
...ambivalently wished-for station of Bums"), the Beat Generation whose "onslaughts on the Air-Conditioned nightmare...sound very much like the griping of soldiers who do not intend to mutiny"), the Angry Young Men (who attack the machine itself), French "existential youth" (saying "no exit"), and finally, the hipster (who "contents himself with a magical omnipotence never disproved because never tested...