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There was a U.N. flag, a Communist flag, a Ho-sheet, and a Mona Lisa poster--but no one was feeling serious. There were just a lot of people milling around doing a total of nothing for at least four hours. It kinda restored your faith...

Author: By Stephen D. Lerner, | Title: Be-in and Nothingness | 5/1/1967 | See Source »

...Kinda the whole room," said Mazer, who ran by to call the Fire Department from the House Superintendent's office...

Author: By George R. Merriam, | Title: Cigarette Kindles K-House Mattress; Firemen Quell Blaze Amidst Cheers | 11/1/1966 | See Source »

...College to do a little studying one night, the first thing he did was snap back the cover boards on Kohler's The Mentality of Apes as far as they would go. What the hell-that was the way he felt. All churned up in his guts, but kinda fuzzy and helpless, too. Like a popgun without a cork. As a freshman, he had been an eager overachiever. Now he was cutting his favorite class because it was just too far to walk. The only thing he really hungered for was a sense of cool. Like his buddy, Chum...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Hell on Campus | 3/25/1966 | See Source »

...based on widespread use of contraceptives is nowhere near at hand. Some girls sleep with steady boy friends, circumspectly and not promiscuously. There are also the perennial pathetic girls who, as one boy explains it, "put out regularly, but they're either ugly or fat or. you know, kinda gross." Mostly, sex among teenagers is a joking game...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Students: On the Fringe of a Golden Era | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

...still others said "Why do you ask?" (Frightened.) "Earl is not a place, It's a thing." "Is it a building here?" "Why, that's redundant." "Sorry. My history background is very weak." "What are you, some kinda nut?" "I don't think he lives in Cambridge." "There's no news today, huh?" "No, not off-hand...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: 'Duke of Earl' Mystifies College, Is No Puzzle for High Schoolers | 3/9/1962 | See Source »

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