Flip Wilson
November, 1968
"I had something in common with the beatniks and more with the hippies," says Leonard Cohen. "The next thing may be even closer to where I am"—a prediction unlikely of fulfillment, unless the post-hippie era finds us in a full-blown renaissance, the only climate in which the 34-year-old Canadian poet-novelist-composer-singer would be at home. Scion of a Montreal clothing family, Cohen briefly tried his hand at the family business after graduation from McGill University, but s...
