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Cool idea, Whit, but I don't know if i can trust any of the posts being made.. remember, Don't trust any one over thirty!
i am going to find my white go-go boots, and mini skirt.. or maybe i should go with a maxi, or bellbottomed jeans.. and water buffalo sandles.. I still have my "Frodo Lives" button.. and even my dylan lp.... (and a turn table! so there!) or i could tune my radio to station NYC and listen to Oscar Brand play the newest folk tunes on "Woody's Children" (actually i can still that last one!)
One strong memory of the late sixties for me was the song form HAIR, where i heard word i had never heard before! (given my strict catholic upbringing it was no wonder...)
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Cool idea, Whit, but I don't know if i can trust any of the posts being made.. remember, Don't trust any one over thirty!
i am going to find my white go-go boots, and mini skirt.. or maybe i should go with a maxi, or bellbottomed jeans.. and water buffalo sandles.. I still have my "Frodo Lives" button.. and even my dylan lp.... (and a turn table! so there!) or i could tune my radio to station NYC and listen to Oscar Brand play the newest folk tunes on "Woody's Children" (actually i can still that last one!)
One strong memory of the late sixties for me was the song from HAIR, where i heard word i had never heard before! (given my strict catholic upbringing it was no wonder...)
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My problem is getting my bell bottom into the jeans!
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grokHow could we forget, Juan?  Originally the Martian word for "drink" I believe. And, then, of course, "burned-out" or "all burned-out" [on drugs] came to take on a more ominous tone as more peoples' lives began to shipwreck on substance abuse in the 70's.I've heard the term "gouching" used to describe people totally blissed out and unconcerned by the world, but definitely with negative connotations. Implies a slack-jawed out-of-it state. Anyone know if that was a 60s term? I suspect it's more 70s heroin abuse territory. "Man, I ain't no burn-out!" would have a modern equivalent (dunno if this is UK only) of "I'm not a stoner!"
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My problem is getting my bell bottom into the jeans! [snorted coffee] Thanks, TEd!
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Originally the term "beat" meant "weary", but it was later
connected to jazz music like the "hip" vocabulary and cool manners of the
Counter Culture artistsī. "Beat" also appeared in Norman Mailer's essay
The White Negro (1957): 'The words are man, go, put down, make, beat,
cool, swing, with it, crazy, dig, creep, hip, square.' Several magazines
published articles on the Beats and lexicons of their jargon. Teenage
followers were called 'beatniks" -
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Man, like, I can dig it, Dr. Bill! Yeah, I guess the Beat Movement continued into the early 60's and the lingo crept into the hip jargon of the decade, co-opted by the hippies who had metamorphosed from the Beatniks. (why do we always spell hippie with a small "h" and Beatnik with a capital "B"?)
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But that is cool, Auntie
Thanks, my dearest young Fishling. Better to be safe than never. Or something.
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Speaking of not trusting anybody over thirty, I remember a radio program of
Allen Ginsberg meeting a notable English literary Dame, whose name I forget. Her
first words to him were: "My, you do smell."
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(why do we always spell hippie with a small "h" and Beatnik with a capital "B"?)
I dunno, Juan. Maybe for the same reason 'hep' transmorgrified [sic] into 'hip'?
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