Word: resister
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kitty Haas, the eccentric designer behind the Coop, must be visited to be believed. You may find it difficult to resist her water buffalo sandals. Those with a do-it-yourself inclination will enjoy fitting these Indian sandals to their feet, a task which involves wearing them in the bathtub or any other convenient body of water for 15 minutes. Kitty's excellent selection of imported earrings for pierced ears begins...
Acting Together. Many businessmen still stubbornly resist integration, of course, and have a different idea of what song their cash registers are ringing. A North Carolina bowling-alley proprietor argues that "white people just aren't going to bowl with colored people-they don't want to use a ball that Negroes have been using." John Carswell, a Chapel Hill drugstore owner, contends that desegregation of his lunch counter would cause "incidents," and many Southern hotelmen profess to fear that if they admitted Negroes, their white trade would go to competitors...
...through all the haze of criticisms by faculty and students, the University was able to resist the advance of academic infringement which began to rear itself at other Universities. When the Daily Pennsylvanian was suspended temporarily, the CRIMSON rushed to Philadelphia with a special edition expressing sympathy for the paper. While the University of Illinois was expelling a professor for advocating free love and other assorted "dirtinesses," Harvard came to the defense of its researcher John P. Spiegel who had been prosecuted for obtaining pornographic pictures despite his claims and the affirmation of his entire department that the pictures were...
...Crowd. By careful standards, Dylan ain't a folk singer either, and he may not even be a genius genius. An atmosphere of the ersatz surrounds him, and his citified fans have an unhappy tendency to drop their g's when praisin' him ?but only because they cannot resist imitatin...
Finally, we have the armchair commentators, who cannot resist speculating on the hallucinogens. Why do intellectuals take the drugs? What are the implications for society? David F. Ricks and Chase Mellen reduce the whole issue to escapism. Ricks talks about despair, ennui and neurosis, Mellen about the contradictions between peyote eating and the Protestant ethic. But neither really faces the fact that ingesting psychedelics is different from taking heroin or watching television. S. Clarke Woodroe goes a bit deeper. Discussing the drug experiences of Baudelaire, de Quincey and other writers, he makes some interesting points about the relation between drugs...