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Title: Hippy Slang of the 60's - Can You Dig It?
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URL Source: http://www.socyberty.com/Subculture ... the-60s---Can-You-Dig-It.57341
Published: Nov 11, 2007
Author: Darlene McFarlene
Post Date: 2007-11-11 10:15:46 by Darlene
Keywords: Culture freedom, hippies, love , peace, Protest, rebellion, slang
Views: 2150
Comments: 25

The 60’s. It was a time of political controversy, rebellion, protest marches, bras burning, bare feet, and flower power. From the dust of the 60’s turmoil rose a new cultural lifestyle with a new breed of people: We called them Hippies.

They were children of peace who criticized middle class values, rebelled against established institutions and were dead against the Vietnam War. They were a new and liberated class of people who gave preference to freedom, love, and peace. They were set apart from others by the way they looked, how they thought, and how they spoke....

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#4. To: Darlene (#0)

I take it back. "Groovey" meant "It sucks".

I just got a parking ticket. Ain't that groovey?

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#5. To: ... (#4)

Sorry to hear about the ticket. BTW, it's spelled "groovy":

www.answers.com/groovy&r=67 and it means, like cool, very cool. "cool" was a beatnik term, from the early 50s.

robin  posted on  2007-11-11   10:39:22 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#6. To: robin (#5)

In the fall of '65, at the Student Union Bldg there was one table in the corner with maybe ten 'hippies,' eight years later, the situation had reversed itself.

It really was a revolution of sorts.

Lod  posted on  2007-11-11   10:46:02 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


#7. To: lodwick (#6)

The Civil Rights movement, the anti-war (Vietnam of course) movement - "How many babies have you killed?", anti-establishment "Question Authority" and "Do it now" ideas, Seat-ins, Love-ins, all began small - like boys being suspended from school for wearing their hair below their ears, then below their collars; while the girls were shortening their skirts at an even faster rate - at the knee, measured in homeroom, X # of inches above the knee, (we were not allowed to wear slacks or jeans to school).

Hair and skirt length were outward signs of where you stood socially and politically; something not true today.

robin  posted on  2007-11-11   10:58:30 ET  Reply   Untrace   Trace   Private Reply  


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