Severely handicapped class arrives - The Lowell

Yuppies...
Baby-boomers 'grow-up'
By Sine Fung
Senator Gary Han. duriri hU
filial I9M presidential bid. brou(hl
into rational anmUon the gruup
whose view he embodied _ UM
Yuppies (young uibir.
profdiioniU).
Moil experts define the rr» nibers
of this group u being young —
specifically,a member of He babyboom
rracmion, the products of
the gnu surge in American binhl
benrces 1946 ind 1964. hoUing a
profeuional or managemen job.
SRI IntcnWJooal. a think«ank. coodaded
that there arc 1.2 million
Yuppie who met tboe qualifies.-
UOM as «U u t*o .: -fc. Vortl« \uch
a\ "groovy." "MiroeJ." "lurncd
on." and "tpJceti-out" became
ClHTUIKtnpUcC.
The Hippie cull alut intiucncrd
mu\K. The Ik-JtlcN prttw U'nwiJ the
inevvajc of love and iuppy li.mp
with wch wmpv i\ "The Ycllnw
Sutimjrinc" and "Straw bcrr)
h'icltli Forc-.xr." which evoked the
effecu of a trip,on drug*. Other
gruupt included Jcftervm Airplane.
The Doon. and Moby Grape.
The emergence of Hippies
fascinated, irritated, and alarmed
many Americans. Epucooal Buhop
James Pike believed there wm "...a
gentlcneu...something good...**
about them. Hi.torun Arnold
Toyf^v^ labeled them as "...a red
wvning light for the American
way."
The '60s. with the civil rights
movements and the Vietnam War,
was a decade of rebellicj. The Hippies
ut on the cxticme end of the
radical itgn and rebelled by "dropping
out" of the American way of
life.
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FEATURE'
Jeat generation: product^
of new consciousness
Oy Jessica I.rtutjr,
"In the tomtual and political
lonctincu of Amcr* ^ of the *50'i
you'd hitch a thousand nilc* to Ptcd
a friend," Mated Guy Snyder. 4
member of what became f.ai they
pmwucd my-Jkil powen. But for
ibe numerous Beau who lad foupht
the Korean War and became
diultutkxied with the American
Urcani of MJCUC^*. "Beat" .imply
meant "bealen tluwn."
Conceived ncjftlic cnl of World
War 11 and germiiutcd in the 5*J*»,
the mnetnent wa\ the cry\ullixatioi
nf co^!>$uxi\ discontent with
the American "virtue*" of pi^re**
and power.
To undenund the Beat*, or Ute
hcatniki as they were wen ^v^*n.
one muvt take a clmc look at the
pmlwar era. It wat, a time of extr»->rdiiur>'
imecuriiy. of profound
ptn^Vf^ACci^ M f«r u indivtdtMl
clfim i* vimcrrnoJ. IndivHlr-alnm
rc.ifncU iti po*er* in corptiratc
Urpcncw, anJ maw umdittoning
through the media became an accepted
pan *>f lifr.
A* the cnuntry i:scKd the "war
oti communiun," it* legacy'of individuality
;a%c way to conforming
"Americxniim." The nuclear exploiUms
in Japan became new
sources of terror and furthrr promoted
the tdejogy of technology.
NfcCanhyiun taught Americans that
truth itself was uupect. Kimething
manipulated by "credible"
authorities.
The Beats originate! on the West
t'ovt - - in San Francisco and Lo*
AitfdeV Venice Wew — then eventually
arpeared in Krw York's East
Village. TV men wore long beards,
but preferred ihort hdr. Their
ckxhing wu drab, consisting usual-
{•/ of khaki putts, a tw«ater. and
sandeis. The women woie Mack
leotards tnd no-tipuick, but so
much evethadow that peopCe came
to expect their "raccoon eyes."
The Be-a favored pu became
they saw themselves as outcasts of«
hostile society and thus felt a tense
of camaraderie with the bLcks.
From the jargon of the Negro jazz
musicians and juvenile street gangs.
the Beats developed their own argot:
"chick." "dig." "bu^." "spade"
to mean Negro, "bread" to
designate money, and "like" to
serve as an all-purpoie psuscronl
and qualifier.
Members of both sexes dwelled
wiihia flats they cnlletf "pads."
usually furnished with nod - tg but a
guipr. a hot pbte, a bare rt» rreu.a
ftv r*«k*n!s and books. OhM. the
v-^nds were of jazz, aod the xoks
'JMM Zen, an ofbhoot of Buddha,
/en Buddhnm ducouraged rational
cipoMtton and promoted the
ikx-triae of iraubAtantiabtlir) of all
aripairnt icntory phenomena.
Madncvt «» another quality
which the Beats revered. They
repanJcd ."nadnru n rtaturalnm.
the proper perspective from which
to view the **.rld. To induce
madncH, the Beats experimented
wilh mirruana. which they called
"pot."
Despite all their idKMyncraktcs,
the Beats insisted that they were DO;
the dangerous revolutionaries fhil
lite "iquarcs" ttcreotyped them to
be. Nov«l:u Jack K=rcuac. a
lc«lin|c ftfirc of die movement, fjcr-
»uadcd. "We love everything — Bit!
Graham, the Big Ten. Rock and
Roll, Zen. apple pie, Eitenhowrr —
we dig it all."
Altogether, the Bca's were an an
tihjcrarchial and antielitia croup
wboic gual wai to divemer a state in
which aU differences aid separation
were eliminated.
Whether ;hey hiuhed ride or not.
the Beats of the '50 uid meet enough
friends to plant the seeds which
were to blossom b the "60s as the
actions of the Hippies.
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