Word: knapsackers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Street Talk. Van Peebles is a cool dude, casting a cynical eye on the world from behind his silver shades. He has not had a permanent address in ten years, hauling his belongings around in a battered knapsack. He is handsome in a wiry, wary way. He gestures with a skinny cigar, spilling out a blend of street talk and businessmen's lingo. But for all his jive and his expatriate status, he insists that he is deadly serious about his black identity. His phrases are familiar: "Of all the ways we've been exploited...
...TIME has given its readers a ste reotyped look at "knapsack nomads" [July 19]. Some of us choose one country in which to spend our vacation with the hope of learning some of the language and meeting some of the local people. We did not come to Europe to meet Amer icans or to commit cultural genocide, as so many American military personnel and tourists do. JOHN B. WILLIAMS III Copenhagen...
...keep the sleeping-bag and knapsack-carrying youths coming. What better way to dispel the odious myth of "the rich American...
...GOODS AND SERVICES THAT ECONOMY-CLASS TOURISTS WANT. Among the beneficiaries: European small-car-and bicycle-rental companies, inexpensive restaurants, even greengrocers, and North American sporting-goods and Army-Navy stores. Today's young travelers load up with sleeping bags, shelter halves and Swiss army knives. U.S. knapsack sales so far this year are way up. A SERIOUS PROBLEM FOR THE TOURIST TRADE IN THE CARIBBEAN, HAWAII AND THE U.S. SOUTH. Some resorts in those areas have already been hurting for more than a year, partly because of competition from charter flights and low group fares to Europe. Round...
...nomads travel light: a few old pullovers wadded into a knapsack and a few hundred dollars stuffed into their jeans. Many of the girls are unsupported by anything but their male companions. While some of these not-so-innocents abroad may have well-planned itineraries, most are rather aimlessly following crowds of their countrymen in a quest for good vibrations. They are joining millions of footloose European youths, who are wandering far and wide from Hammerfest to Gibraltar-and points even farther out. Whatever their mother tongue, the youngsters manage to communicate. They speak a sort ot Jeunesperanto, and they...