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...longer interested in the American Establishment, "an interlacing of relationships based on primordial status lines," Wolfe is more and more preoccupied with the world of custom cars, surf-boards and Harley 74s, peopled by "drop out forms," who have opted out of the mainstream of American social competition. These forms, rejecting "post-war bureaucracy which has made people interchangeable parts" in the commercial life of the nation, are inherently at odds with the "vertical" social structure they have left behind...

Author: By Timothy S. Mayer, | Title: Tom Wolfe | 11/24/1965 | See Source »

...sided story of Dartmouth's romp is told by the rushing statistics: 348 yards for the Green, 44 for Columbia. Never before has a visiting team to easily walked over so much Baker field surf; not since 1960 has anyone run up such a big margin against the Lions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Indians Roll Relentlessly To Showdown With Tiger | 11/9/1965 | See Source »

...Decaying Everywhere." Author of Eve of Destruction and 30 other "songs of our times" is P. F. Sloan, 19, who allows that his inspiration comes from being "bugged most of the time." A graduate of the breezy West Coast "surf sound," Sloan traded in his sneakers and sweatshirt for black leather boots and a Hans Brinker cap this spring, set out "to say what I feel," that is, an impression of "a decaying everywhere." Says he: "Society is so confused. There are triple roadblocks and detours wherever you go, and no one knows which road to travel." Viet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rock 'n' Roll: Message Time | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

...century house in East Hampton, L.I., settled in the painterly light that has drawn artists to the region for 150 years. An impressive figure even in later life, he would daily stalk across the dunes in a 200-year-old Chinese robe, fling it off, and plunge into the surf. Occasionally, Hassam even departed from pragmatism, painting such fantasies as Adam and Eve Walking Out on Montauk Point in Early Spring. Whereas Monet in his old age quietly painted his water lilies, the American impressionist traced the rustic tranquillity of the Hamptons' shingled cottages, windmills, and seacoast...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Painting: Muley the Pragmatist | 9/3/1965 | See Source »

...brooding farmhouse on the coast of Brittany, surf roaring and crashing against the rocks below, lives a fierce-eyed, craggy recluse (Melvyn Douglas)−once a prominent judge in Paris, and now a bitter misanthrope who spends most of his time bombarding his onetime friends with mimeographed diatribes about justice. With him live Agnes, his "strange" daughter (Gozzi), and Karen, a sexy slattern of a maid (Gunnel Lindblom, a recruit from the stable of Swedish Director Ingmar Bergman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Darkness in Brittany | 8/27/1965 | See Source »

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