[sumo] Beatniks to hippies

[Earle Jones]

On Aug 27, 2008, at 6:41 AM, Leigh Solland (on Webmail) wrote:

> Quoting clive kewell <ulli_clive.kewell at t-online.de>:
>
>>
>> <jdouglas at nyc.rr.com> schrieb:
>>> You know you're a beatnik if:
>>>
>>> You find yourself snapping your fingers in agreement following a  
>>> speech or
>> performance.
>>>
>>> Jean-Paul Sartre makes you smirk.
>>>
>>> You wear a beret in the summer.
>>>
>>> Huzayomama -
>>>
>> You know you´re a beatnik if you STILL wear black even while you 
>> ´re having a
>> shower, although it may be grey instead of black nowadays ;)
>>
>
> You know you're a beatnik if you have a maid come in once a week to  
> dirty up.
>
> Iwayama

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Let me see if I have this right:

In the '40s you wore a 'zoot suit'.
In the '50s you were 'hep' -- a real 'hepcat'.
'Hep' changed to 'hip' around the '60s.
'Hep' meant you were hot.  'Hip' meant you were cool.
Cool jazz was 'hip'.  Dave Brubeck was hip. Brubeck's alto sax player,  
Paul Desmond was even more hip -- the coolest.
 From 'hip' came 'hippie' -- when?
Next, the 'beat' generation.
If you were a member of the beat generation, you were a  
'beatnik' (coined by, I think, the late Herb Caen -- columnist for the  
San Francisco Chronicle.)

What's next?

earle
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