Word: bummers
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Dates: during 1968-1968
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...Sometimes a Great Notion (1964), is--if one were to believe Tom Wolfe's chronicle of his recent life--responsible for a lot. Hippies, for example, communal living, flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that at Kesey's happenings--The Acid Tests--you were served...
...risk. The police entered and created the shock that the demonstrators had not been able to provide by themselves, the force needed to affect the "consciousness" of the majority. Student activists are going to remember this lesson for a long time. Once you get in, it's a bummer to get you out. So will President Kirk, wherever he's going to be in a year...
...Start being a family again. Start talking to older people. It's a bummer to be old in this country. What a bummer. But we can all get together and talk. It's a big job but it can be done...