[lbo-talk] Hipsterville

Carrol Cox cbcox at ilstu.edu
Thu Jul 5 12:55:30 PDT 2007


Michael Smith wrote:
>
> "Hippie," IIRC, was never a word that hippies used of themselves. I
> always thought Time magazine coined it.

Ah! Confirmation of what I suspected at the time. I believe Time/Life came up with "Yuppie" also; very possibly they came up with 9 out of 10 of such "hip" ;_> terms. The U.S. cultural history from c. 1930 to 1970 that most remember if they don't do some research is all history invented concurrently with it by Henry Luce's boys.

Carrol



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