A few people dropped out and tried to build egalitarian communities. In the 60s, most of us were just bursting with floral abundance and the desire to make the world a better place. This reviewer remembers being very, very proud of a pantsuit, homemade, bright green with purple, blue, pink, yellow and red flowers all over it. Was hippie hair and clothing really as bad as Gordon Korman describes it in Schooled, his latest novel? He exaggerates, but the answer is probably yes. …The weirdest thing about Capricorn Anderson was this: he was looking at me like I was the freak. They were sandals woven out of cornhusks, and rustled when he moved. And his shoes were something out of a social studies project on the pioneer days. His clothes looked like pajamas - homemade pajamas. His long blond flyaway hair stretched all the way down to the middle of his back. I swear he'd never been anywhere near a barbershop in his life. Standing beside him was the strangest-looking kid I'd ever seen. Kasigi, the assistant principal, flagged me down.
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