Word: hipsters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hipster-Nihilist. The device that Fuentes uses to launch the novel is as old as Chaucer: a group on a pilgrimage-in this case, figurative rather than literal. It is Holy Week, and packed into a Volkswagen en route from Mexico City to Veracruz are Franz, a Sudeten German who once worked as an architect in a Nazi concentration camp; Isabel, his thrill-a-minute cutie; Javier, a middle-aged dud poet; and Elizabeth, his love-starved (as distinguished from sex-starved) wife. Though each is in search of an intensely personal salvation, each represents a familiar 20th century type...
...Please accept my gentle, loving indication to you that your quasi-learned etymology of the word "hippie" completely misses the mark. When the words "hip" and "hipster" were real cool, there was also the word "hippie"; it referred to an unhip person trying to be hip but not really making it. I suggest that this can tell us something about today's hippies...
...term derives from the pre-World War II jitterbug adjective "hep": to be "with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard...
LOVES OF A BLONDE. Czech Director Milos Forman, 34, explores the delights and dilemmas of youth in this touching tale of a hayseed girl and her brief encounter with a hipster from Prague...
LOVES OF A BLONDE. Czech Director Milos Forman, 34, explores the pleasures and pains of youth in this touching comedy about a small-town girl and her brief encounter with a dashing young hipster from Prague...