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Word: scissorless (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1967-1967
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...Beatles may have triggered the trend; the hippies may be making a scissorless, combless and soapless travesty of it. But long hair has outgrown its parameters, traditionally described by the rebelliousness of youth and the self-consciousness of show business. It has become grey, middleaged, ubiquitous and eminently respectable, a coast-to-coast phenomenon that has infiltrated even the U.S. Army, that last bastion of the butch. Last March at Fort Ord, Calif., by command of the commanding officer, the compulsory 30-second scalp job for all recruits was succeeded by a permissive repertory of six hair styles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: LONGER HAIR IS NOT NECESSARILY HIPPIE | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

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