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The Purple Decades: A Reader By Tom Wolfe Farrar, 396 pp., $17.50

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! went the Sixties, and Tom Wolfe was there, on the scene, in the scene, in Sulka four-in-hand and four-piece suit—make that five-piece?—yellow piping running round the grey like lemon neon, the lime weskit deep-lapeled and double-breasted; the Sixties, back when there was still a Walter Winchell, and Truman Capote was oooh, big’,

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The Purple Decades: A Reader By Tom Wolfe Farrar, 396 pp., $17.50

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeee! went the Sixties, and Tom Wolfe was there, on the scene, in the scene, in Sulka four-in-hand and four-piece suit—make that five-piece?—yellow piping running round the grey like lemon neon, the lime weskit deep-lapeled and double-breasted; the Sixties, back when there was still a Walter Winchell, and Truman Capote was oooh, big’,