In those days everybody was kind of organization man, except in a younger level. And prep schools were conformist by their very nature. This particular school had what was called a dean of discipline. He would literally measure the amount of fringe that went over your shirt collar. If there was too much, well, he would tell you to have it cut by the next day.
Steven Heller—legendary writer and author—joins to discuss his new book “Growing Up Underground,” an entertaining and humorous coming-of-age story at the center of New York’s youth culture in the 1960s and 1970s.