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• n  a youth subculture (mostly from the middle class) originating in San Francisco in the 1960s; advocated universal love and peace and communes and long hair and soft drugs; favored acid rock and progressive rock music
• n  someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle
• n  someone who rejects the established culture; advocates extreme liberalism in politics and lifestyle

• The trouble is that in a school of 1,018 pupils so near New York there is bound to be a fast set of hard-shell hippies like Alpert who seem utterly glamorous to more sheltered .
• All hippies have a different purpose.
• Hippies fondled Ginsberg's black beard and flowing tresses; Genet showered dollar bills on the hippies and received a hippie ring in return.

• flower people
• hipsters
• hippie
• hippy
• hipster
• flower child

News & Articles

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• This week in disappointment: greenways, guns and landfills
  First they ignore you, then they ridicule you, then they fight you, then you win.—Mahatma Gandhi "Several hundred people—mostly white, angry, aged former hippies—appeared and screeched into microphones, talked about solidarity and chanted diatribes. It was 'liberal theater' at its best.
  June 12, 2013 - Independent Weekly
• Juicing Tips
  Thinking about Juicing? What You Should Know It’s no longer just celebrities, world-class athletes and alternative-lifestyle hippies turning to green smoothies and freshly juiced vegetable and fruits for improved health, says nutritionist and juicing pioneer Cherie Calbom, MS. (“The Juice Lady”).
  June 9, 2013 - The Gilmer Mirror
• How to make household disinfectants with no bleach
  I’m torn. I am a hippie at heart. I was raised by hippies. I grew up weaving yarn on a loom and dancing to drum circles. Some people are born with a silver spoon? I was born with a burning sage. You...
  June 8, 2013 - KFJX Pittsburg

Quotes

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• Ray Manzarek in International Herald Tribune
  The powers that be said, 'No way are we going to let 60,000 hippies in the Plaza de Toros,'the bull ring where the Doors were scheduled to perform in 1969, Manzarek said. "We were very unhappy about not being able to play for the...
• Moby in Reuters
  I feel like I'm at a meeting of meditators anonymous,Moby joked. "I just learned TM recently because I was raised by hippies, and to be honest with you anything associated with TM and hippies scared ...... me."