BoHo: Bohemian. I arrived in the West Village right on the cusp, 1966. Hippies were just beginning, but luckily the first people I met were from the Beat-era. They were mostly 5-10 years older than me, but intellectually we hit it off. Thank God! The difference between the beatniks and the hippies is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug (excuse me Mark Twain!).
No-Like you Thudly; I was maybe 10 years old-the family went to New York City for vacation-We went into the Village and saw lots of beatniks and had one paint my sisters portrait in oil-real good-then as I got a little older and started exploring San Francisco more; I found North Beach and went into the coffee houses there and there was poetry reading-bongo playing etc.-People drank lots of coffee and read alot of poetry and books-mello-there never was any kind of protest or uprising by the beats' as far as I can remember-but they all seemed to be into the arts in one form or another-woodworking-leather work-painting-poetry-music etc-which without that you have a city with no culture-Europe has alot of that-we need more here-
I was a little young to be part of it, but I knew about it. It probably helped that my father was a Jazz musician. But I remember a lot of the pre-hippie days. I can remember when Elvis went in the Army, the raise and death of Buddy Hollie, the integration of Little Rock's high school, U2 spy plane flights, Duck and Cover ... and lots of other pre-hippie fun. Mine was one of the families with a fall-out shelter. We were getting prepared to survive the coming nuclear war - [the idea of surviving seems funny now, but it was very serious then]. Peace, poor_old_dad
Boho is short for bohemian. Boho are similar to hippie looks: long flowing or tiered skirts, ethnic touches like tunics or wood jewelry, embellishment with beading or spangles, fringed handbags, jewelled or embellished flat sandals. The look is often layered and colorful. There were definitely no shortage of "bohemian" types when I was growing up. My parents, however, wanted nothing to do with them. My parents did not listen to music on the radio (strictly dialog radio). Hair was short. Standard American English was the language. Bohemians drank beer from the bottle, were known to strike out at each other (men hitting women was a taboo in my culture), and sometimes would leave their children unattended so that they could explore mind-expanding activities. Of course, these were my parents' perceptions. I had seen a few, although they were not folks that my parents associated with. WAIT A MINUTE !!! I think I was talking about HOBOs. Never mind
I goddamn wish I was part of the Beat scene...There are never any new era's these days, and the death of Ginsberg ended an era. Although I do pretty much like all the arts, mainly writing and Jazz..
Oh, man! Allen Ginsberg...miss him ..... HOWL I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machin- ery of night, who poverty and tatters and hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking in the supernatural darkness of cold-water flats floating across the tops of cities contemplating jazz, for the complete poem: http://members.tripod.com/~Sprayberry/poems/howl.txt Peace, poor_old_dad
I Know This Much Hippies Or Not This Generation Dont Protest About Anything Not Even A Allready Long And Drag Out War = The Education In Our Schools Finally Are Showing The Grades . Or Simply Americans Finally Lost Theyr Guts.
In Case Some Of You Who Dont Fallow The News = Bush Wanted To Use Painfull Ways To Extract Information From Suspects "torture" . Same Tactics The German Geastapo Used In WW 2.
The former secretary of state Colin Powell yesterday repudiated White House plans to allow coercive interrogations of al-Qaida suspects, saying it would erode the moral basis of the US "war on terror". In a letter to Senator John McCain, one of a trio of powerful Republicans who have opposed White House proposals for new legislation on detainees, Mr Powell warned that it would be a mistake to reduce America's commitment to the Geneva convention on treatment of prisoners. "The world is beginning to doubt the moral basis of our fight against terrorism," Mr Powell wrote.
