...1957 essay by Norman Mailer heralded the arrival of the "American existentialist" whom he labeled the hipster: ...the man who knows that if our collective...atomic war, relatively quick death by the state as "1'univers concentrationnaire," or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious...

...Alternative: It is on this bleak scene that a phenomenon has appeared: the American existentialist - the hipster, the man who knows that if our collective...condition is to live with instant death by atomic war [...], or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rcbellious instinct stifled [...],...

..."unconsciously" feeling — the essay which later evolved gave priority to the subject of conformity: "our collective condition is to live with instant...atomic war, relatively quick death by the State as I'univers concentrationnaire , or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious...

...apocalyptic imagination within the flamboyancy of Beat culture: The American existentialist — the hipster, the man who knows that if our collective...condition is to live with instant death by atomic war... or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious instinct stifled... then the...

...without a cause." Unmoored from middle-class domestic life and traditional political institutions, he "knows that if our collective condition is to live...by atomic war, relatively quick death by the State ... or with slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious instinct stifled . . . why...

...Vital Center, although Mailer desires a vital center for culture and rebellion in a time of despair: "Our collective condition is to live with instant...atomic war, relatively quick death by the State as I'univers concentrationnaire, or with a slow death by conformity with every creative and rebellious...

...on this Legs puzzlement. Written in 1957, Norm's essay says the hipster was a man who realized that "our collective condition is to live with instant death by atomic war." This fact was particularly distressing to white men ticketed for two cars in the garage and a neat...