Max Sawicky wrote:
> No no. We weren't mimicking the w.c. That was the maoists.
> We were mimicking the Beats. The Beats were mimicking African-
> American jazz musicians. Except for guys like Perelman, who
> were mimicking the peasantry.
There were also the opportunists. In 1954 I walked into a colonel's office in my winter blues, my collar open, and my tie pulled down, with a slip from the Infirmary permitting it: I had rosa barbarosa, or barber's itch -- a very painful rash from shaving. In 1968 thanks to the fashions of the '60s I could stop scarifying my face each a.m. and leave my shirt collar open. Twenty years of daily misery were at last over.
Carrol