Word: hipsterism
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...always write on the assumption that everyone reading me is brighter than I," says Gottfried. "Often they are. Judging from the letters, I have some real hipsters in my audience." Gottfried is something of a hipster himself. He got through two years of Columbia law school "before I realized I spent more time in Drama Professor Eric Bentley's class than in law classes." After that discovery, he quit school entirely and headed for San Francisco "to find out what was happening. That was the Kerouac era." After a hitch in Army intelligence, he started his professional writing career...
Filmed in Kenya, Moses too often skips over the dignified Masai and the glorious scenery in order to study the breed of wildlife Hollywood knows best. One cat is Ubi (Raymond St. Jacques), a troublesome tribal hipster who has lived in Harlem, and can spout such phrases as: "You goofed it, daddy." Ever wary of what Ubi may do, Mitchum scarcely can find any time for Carroll Baker, who speaks a few words of Swahili rather competently and lets the rest of her lines fall where they may. Actress Baker behaves in a manner befitting a missionary's daughter...
...this sharing of the experience that unites the wild lovers of Bohemian sex or homo-sex--that lends the illusion of union with brother race as white hipster makes Negro chick. The sharing is built to its very foundation on the in versus the out; on the exclusion of squares; on the treasured mutuality of isolation...
Some of the poems, of course, are protest pieces, and a few even come in the tired, familiar voice of the hipster...
Hope from the Poets. The sickness Fiedler most fears in society he finds expressed in Burroughs and other hipster writers who are high on "hashish and yoga, heroin and zen" and drugs like mescaline that alter consciousness. "There is a weariness in the West," he writes, "a weariness with humanism itself which underlies all the movements of our world, a weariness with the striving to be men." And he sees these writers in love with that weariness saying in effect: "Let the focused consciousness blur into the cosmic night; let the hallucinatory monsters bred of fragmented consciousness prowl that night...