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