Cool
Cool
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"Cool was when you understated your feelings. You had a lot of feeling but you just didn't state it...and nobody stated theirs. Thus you built up this tension of all the unstated. It wasn't anger, but a web of interplay; things that you would say full out now, would then be stated in a small gesture-a little phrase or act would say the whole thing.
Why did Cool come about? I don't know--I guess it was the fashion. It was maybe a reaction to the oversentimentality of our parents' generation--the soap operas, Frank Sinatra...So the jazz was cool, we were cool, everybody was cool, and if you were cool that meant that you gave everybody more space, sort of."