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hippieMember of a youth movement of the late 1960s, also known as flower power, which originated in San Francisco, California, and was characterized by nonviolent anarchy, concern for the environment, and rejection of Western materialism. The hippies formed a politically outspoken, anti-war, artistically prolific counterculture in North America and Europe. Their colourful psychedelic style, inspired by drugs such as LSD, emerged in fashion, graphic art, and music by bands such as Love (1965–71), the Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane (1965–74), and Pink Floyd. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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But their graying flower child eclecticism would just be a goof if this wasn't also a crack old-timey string band, great at harmonizing, phrasing and arranging everything from sea shanties to freedom hymns to yodeling lullabies, with one of Bob Dylan's stranger chestnuts, ``The Wicked Messenger,'' tossed in for good measure. From a direct mail offer from a business called Grasshopper Flats: "Were you a flower child of the sixties? Thirty years later, the flower child turned flower farmer is still out front pushing for agrarian reform, but now he is doing it from his seat in Congress. |
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