By John Bassett McCleary
No matter if you lived during the sixties and seventies or simply want you had, this revised and increased variation of the Hippie Dictionary entertains up to it educates.
Cultural and political listings corresponding to "Age of Aquarius," "Ceasar Chavez," and "Black strength Movement," plus renowned words like "acid flashback," "get a grip," and "are you for real?" will remind you of ways progressive these twenty years were.
Although the hippie period spans 20 years starting with the approval of the contraception capsule in 1960 and finishing with the dying of John Lennon in 1980, it wasn't all approximately intercourse, medicines, and rock'n' roll. those have been the early years of pro-ecology and anti-capitalist beliefs-beliefs which are simply as well timed as ever. So sit back and journey out at the new entries in addition to the previous, and notice why a few are dubbing the sixties and seventies "the highbrow renaissance of the 20 th century.
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Extra resources for Hippie Dictionary: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the 1960s and 1970s, Revised and Expanded Edition
Instance: “Last night’s jam used to be a ball. ” ball or balling v. to have sexual activity; a really derogatory time period indicating the least delicate type of lovemaking. This one didn’t final too lengthy in the course of the hippie period; there has been an unsettling phase within the motion picture Woodstock the place a tender, innocent-looking couple used the time period to explain their lovemaking, which, i think, negatively affected even the main hard-core supporter of unfastened love. ball-breaker or ball-buster an competitive or not easy girl, sexually or socially. balloon a normal toy balloon used for storing or wearing heroin. balls a man’s testicles. additionally, it capacity to have guts. instance: “He’s bought balls, leaping out of that tree, yet now not too many smarts. ” balls in an uproar mad. The balls are usually not literal, and different components of the physique can be utilized, comparable to ass, head, and so forth. instance: “He bought his balls in an uproar over the tofu I slipped into his scrambled eggs. ” balls to the wall to head all out in a few attempt. instance: “When he drives his automobile, he is going balls to the wall. ” My in simple terms resource exhibits this can initially be a surfer time period touching on dealing with a wall of water and exposing oneself to threat. The balls noted are assumed to be the male testicles. ballsy having guts, braveness, or obviously, balls. instance: “Dorothy’s a ballsy chick; even with out testicles, she consists of the competitive hormone. ” This time period started to appear in 1967, but, as with many counterculture phrases and words, it used to be used for a number of years within the underground sooner than being obvious within the normal public. bam a drug combination containing either stimulants and depressants. 2. amphetamines. bam! an exclamation verbalizing a shock inspiration or unforeseen prevalence. utilized in comedian books to point the sound of a collision or arrival of a few shock. instance: “I used to be taking into account her and bam! there she used to be. ” comparable utilization as shazam or wham. banana this was once the most outrageous hoaxes of the period, ranking besides the mentioned demise of Paul McCartney. In a Donovan music, “Mellow Yellow,” November 19, 1966, the lyrics pointed out “e-lec-tri-cal banana. ” the result used to be a dramatic bring up in banana revenues around the usa. within the subsequent six months, experimentation into different methods you can still ingest, insert, or inhale the banana reached epidemic proportions. every body inspiration that the banana possessed a few psychedelic traits. It used to be finally decided that find out how to take pleasure in a banana used to be to peel it, devour it, and get pleasure from the style. Band, the shaped in 1967 in Woodstock, manhattan, James Robbie Robertson (b. July five, 1944, Toronto, Ont. ), gtr. ; Richard Manuel (b. Apr. three, 1945, Stratford, Ont. ; d. Mar. four, 1986, iciness Park, Fla. ), piano, voc. ; Garth Hudson (b. Aug. 2, ca. 1943, London, Can. ), organ, sax; Rick Danko (b. Dec. 29, 1942, Simcoe, Can. ; d. Dec. 10, 1999, Woodstock, N. Y. ), bass, viola, voc. ; Levon Helm (b. may well 26, 1940, Marvell, Ark. ), drums, voc. , mandolin. so much awesome for his or her organization with Bob Dylan, whom they sponsored on journey and performed with on recordings that have been later published in 1975 because the Basement Tapes.