Posted on 11/25/2012 2:47:21 PM PST by DustyMoment
He was mentioned a couple of times:" In the mid-1950s this group expanded to include figures associated with the San Francisco Renaissance such as Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Michael McClure, Philip Whalen, Lew Welch and Kirby Doyle."
"Then during the 1950s there was much cross-pollination with San Francisco area writers (Ginsberg, Corso, Cassady and Kerouac all moved there for a time). Ferlinghetti (one of the partners who ran the City Lights press and bookstore) became a focus of the scene as well as the older poet Rexroth, whose apartment became a Friday night literary salon. Rexroth organized the famous Six Gallery reading in 1955, the first public appearance of Ginsberg's poem Howl."
Yep, and he probably always will be.
the remaining percentage being those who are not boomers.
The boomers produced close to 9.5 million war dead and veterans.
>>>there isn’t a Boomer that I know who wants to either be associated with the hippies or who believes that the hippies were invented by Boomers<<<
I know (or at least have met) a ton of them. That’s not to smear all “Baby Boomers,” not at all. I came at the tail end of the boom, I guess, and I sure ain’t no hippie.
But if you live in or around any university town, as I have had to do for long stretches of my life, you meet one after another after another of “Boomers” who think sex, love, peace, life, history and truth were invented somewhere between the moonshot and the evacuation of Saigon.
They are virtually all foolish and fundamentally helpless, of course, but they think, along with our disgrace of a President, that he in fact is the “One” they have been waiting for.
Except of course for those (Bill Ayers, Michael Moore, et al.) who think he is too conservative.
Good grief, we are all showing our age! Dobby Gillis was one of my favorite after school shows to watch.
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And the sixties still Suck.
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Ha, ha, maybe the most succinct appraisal of these losers. They did leave a lot of beatnik jokes behind. Never met one person who would admit to being a beatnik. Mostly just another west and east coast collection of life's losers who thought they'd find nirvana in drugs. Like the hippies.
I was a hippie, and I hope that I still am.
I have a different view of the very small, very short lived hippie thing than many here, and it didn’t involve politics, and it didn’t involve kids who were in college.
Yippies, activists, and college students were not hippies.
These people rejected any kind of morality or authority and they usually acted on it. They also thought themselves far superior to others.
On September 5th, 1945, a cipher clerk named Igor Gouzenko defected from the Soviet Embassy in Ottawa and revealed to the Canadian government that the Soviets had a spy ring all set up. One of their tasks was to get hold of the secrets behind the atomic bomb. As a result of his testimony, 39 suspects were arrested and 18 convicted.
The news leaked out in early 1946 and caused a sensation, like the Hiss-Chambers trial did in the States. Only...
...the story died away because the Canadian government took action. Unlike the Truman Administration, which sat on the Dees Commission Report, Prime Minister Mackenzie King decided to man up and see the prosecutions through. By the time the press splayed the details of the story on the front pages, the matter had essentially been taken care of.
Result? There was no trace of McCarthyism in Canada. Why? Because the Mackenzie King government, instead of trying to bury the spy scandal and foot-drag, dealt with it. As a result, there was no sensible basis to assume there was any kind of a pro-Communist cover-up in Ottawa. In Canada, no McCarthy figure was ever needed.
Now, Prime Minister Mackenzie King was a Liberal. The next time you bump into a liberal who thinks the Canadian variety are especially admirable, feel free to hold up Mackenzie King as one of them. On the grounds given above, that is.
There was a Perry Mason episode, The Case of the Jaded Joker, that had a beat theme. Even Tragg got into the act.
Tragg: “Well, I’m glad this one’s over; I’m beat.”
Della (laughing): “Dig the hipster.”
Tragg: “Don’t bug me, granny. I’m one of the cool ones. I don’t dig slickchicks trying to goof me up . . . daddy-o.”
I learned the word “propinquity” from that show. Zelda, who was perennially pursuing Dobie, told him, “I have one thing going for me - propinquity.” Dobie of course asked, “Propinquity? What’s that?” “Propinquity: nearness, closeness,” she explained. Never forgot it.
Well, I’d like to hear it...what is the code of the hippie that makes being one so appealing to you?
“A lot of guys joined the revolution just to get laid.”
That entire era in one sentence.
FWIW, I’m a Vietnam vet & never smoked dope.
“Hateful?” Typical touchy-feely, Boomer-dominated public education Boomer-speak. Very Lincoln-Douglas Debates of you. (Oh, and your opening (sigh)... that’s a perfect example of why a Boomer can never win a debate.)
“Ignorant?” Please point to a factual error. And you didn’t offer one rational refutation to anything I posited.
And I didn’t say all Boomers are hippies. But all hippies were/are Boomers.
For your buddies on this thread who are chest-thumping about their military service? The Boomers are the ones who made sure their own country lost a war. Actually, two — Vietnam and, any minute now, Afghanistan.
Boomers are in charge of America, its government and its industry. Can you argue with a straight face they’re doing a good job?
They’re dragging us the rest of us into socialism. Unemployment is at its highest it’s been since the Depression. A committed Marxist — a Boomer — is President.
That’s on the Boomers.
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