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...Young toughs poured hot tar over a long-haired bystander for no other reason than his beatnik look, then covered him with feathers; he suffered minor burns. Otherwise the combativeness was limited mostly to vigorous flag-waving and the legends blazoned on hand-lettered signs. There were, of course, hyper-hawks galore, toting signs reading "Bomb Haiphong" and "Drop peaceniks on Hanoi." One banner proclaimed: "Ho Chi Minh is a fink-give him the kitchen sink. If that don't settle the score-give him the kitchen door." But there were also pacifists on the sidewalks who carried neither...
Guests play golf on Mrs. Post's private, nine-hole course, or the championship course at the Seminole Club. Visitors can also swim in Mrs. Post's pool, at her private beach, or at the hyper-exclusive Bath and Tennis Club. At night, there is often a square dance, and though the music stops at 11 p.m., guests are free to borrow one of the hostess' limousines and cruise into town for frugging at O'Hara's until dawn...
Gary Snyder presents an interesting case, interesting perhaps to study in the light of Barber's theories about aggression. Snyder is a charismatic, gleeful, booming-voiced, hyper-energetic Adonis of a man, very sharp-witted, very profound, a long-time student of Zen in Kyoto, and a poet who despite militant political leftism gives the impression of being the best-adjusted man on earth. Yet I don't think he's much of a poet, and I can't help feeling he's perhaps too much of a man, in the sense that Yeats was suggesting (as Barber quotes...
...York's Fawkesians were sparked by a Queens milkman whose nickname is "Nathan Hale," a Long Island land scape artist, and a 40-year-old Danbury State Teachers College sophomore. All belonged to the Minutemen, a hyper-patriotic organization whose members covertly train themselves in guerrilla warfare against the day when a Communist coup takes over the U.S. Not content to wait for the revolution, the Sunday warriors aimed last week to destroy three rustic, rundown camps that at one time or another had been used for left-wing or pacifist meetings...
...they lead lives of exposure to abnormal and unremitting stimuli, against which their defense is a shell of aggressive, blase behavior. What catches their attention and wins their approval must be more aggressive, more shocking, more violent, but by no means necessarily more worthy, than this constant hyper-level of stimuli...