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...side of the generation gap. For once the aura of evil that clings to drug-and-motorcycle movies is gone. Like other films directed to-and by-youth, Easy Rider could have settled for catcalls and rebellion. Instead the film has refurbished the classic romantic gospel of the outcast wanderer. Walt Whitman might not have recognized the bikes-but he would have understood the message...
Wynne grew up in Fordyce, Arkansas, where you were "a sissy or a social outcast if you didn't play football" and mothers brought you up to be All-Americans. He started playing golf at the age of five and four years later. When the hot summers rolled into the little town, he'd spend 12 hours a day on the golf course...
Since 1964, her sales have almost tripled to a peak last year of more than $6,000,000. She claims to have 2,000,000 steady customers and ten times as many occasional ones. Yet Beate is some thing of a social outcast. The West German Association of Women Entrepreneurs has resolutely refused to admit her to membership. Church leaders regularly denounce her. Even the tennis club in Flensburg near her home will not allow her to join...
Cambridge Outcast. Capp denies that he has become reactionary since becoming rich. "I was making $150,000 a year while I was still in my 20s," he says. "My job as a humorist is to find lunacy wherever it exists and expose it." For years he fought McCarthyism in his cartoon strip. "But lunacy has shifted-you can't rely on it. I find it on the left now, and that's where I'm firing...
...drinkers-a category embracing but not restricted to the alcoholic-while another third are moderate drinkers. The rest either drink sparingly or not at all. Even in Skid Row's inverted social hierarchy-the farther they fall, the bigger they are-the alcoholic is something of a social outcast, scorned and rejected by Skid Row's characteristic drinking fraternity, the bottle gang...