Hippie - Hippie Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle-class Western values. They saw paternalistic government, corporate industry, and traditional social mores as part of a unified Establishment that had no authentic legitimacy. The term derived from hipster which referred to white people in the US who were 'hip' or became involved with Black culture, e.g. Harry "The Hipster" Gibson. September 6, 1965, marked the first San Francisco newspaper story, by Michael Fellon, that used the word 'hippie' to refer to the younger bohemians (as opposed to the older Beat Generation)..
Hippie trail - Hippie trail The hippie trail is a term used to describe the journeys taken by hippies in the 60s and 70s from Europe to Asia. One of the key facets of the hippie trail was the desire to travel as cheaply as possible, thus usually the journeys were carried out by thumbing (hitchhiking). Such journeys would typically start in England and pass through `key' spots such as Istanbul, Kathmandu and Goa. Kathmandu still has a road named Freak Street in memory of the many thousands of hippies who passed (and occasionally still pass) through. Many on the hippie trail were driven by the ideals of 'finding yourself' and 'communicating with other peoples' that often underlay the hippie movement. The story of Steve Abrams is one good.
Hippie Hollow - Hippie Hollow McGregor Park, also known as Hippie Hollow, is a park located on the shore of Lake Travis near Austin, Texas. Though the land is owned by the Lower Colorado River Authority, it is leased to Travis County, Texas, whose Parks Department administers the park. Hippie Hollow got its name due to its traditional use as a nude swimming, or "skinny-dipping", spot beginning in the early 1960s. This usage continues to this day, though that status has been unsuccessfully challenged in the courts. The clothing-optional status is protected by the placement of appropriate signage at the park entrance, which duly warns visitors of possibility of encountering nude swimmers. While some may refer to Hippie Hollow as a nude beach, that description is somewhat misleading; the.
Kings Road - major east-west street in London's Chelsea. During the hippie and punk eras, it was a major center for the counterculture, but is now gentrified..
Janis Joplin - heroin user, however, more so than other intoxicants, she was a heavy drinker throughout her career and fancied Southern Comfort. After a brief return to Port Arthur and a failed engagement she again moved to San Francisco in 1966, where her bluesier vocal style saw her join Big Brother and The Holding Company, who were gaining some renown amongst the nascent hippie community in Haight-Ashbury. The band signed a deal with independent Mainstream Records and recorded an eponymously titled album in 1967. However, the lack of success of their early singles led to the album being withheld, until after their subsequent success. The band's big break came at the Monterey Pop Festival, which included a version of Thornton's Ball and Chain featuring a barnstorming vocal by Joplin. Their 1968 album Cheap.
Jesus Movement - Movement The Jesus Movement was the Christian component of the Hippie Movement, composed of the Jesus People or Jesus Freaks. It arose spontaneously on the American West Coast in the 1960s and 1970s and spread throughout North America, Europe, and Afghanistan. It was a portion of one of the periodic Awakenings that occur in American history, in which the values of American society are radically altered. The Jesus Movement was a counter-counter cultural movement. Some people became disenchanted with American life and became Hippies; later some Hippies became disenchanted with Hippie values and became Jesus Freaks. The term "Jesus Freak" was originally a pejorative label, but then taken on as a name by the Jesus People. They kept many of the mannerisms and style of the Hippies, but changed the content..
John Savage - to the end, Savage was a doctor in Newport until he emigrated to Dartmouth, Nova Scotia in 1967. He made a name for himself as the "hippie doctor" in the 1970s, setting up a detox centre, and a free clinic in the disadvantaged community of North Preston. After unsuccessful tries as a Liberal candidate in two federal elections, he became mayor of his hometown of Dartmouth in 1985. While mayor, he received a reputation as a left-wing free spender. In 1992 Savage decided to try his hand at provincial politics, running for the leadership of the Nova Scotia Liberal party. Winning on the second ballot, Savage then won in a landslide over Donald Cameron and the governing Progressive Conservatives in the 1993 provincial election. During his term as premier, Savage changed.
Julie Delpy - is a French actress. Born in Paris, the daughter of hippie generation parents who worked as stage actors in the avant-garde underground theater, she was encouraged by her parents to act. She made her stage debut at the age of 5, and at 14 she obtained a role in the Jean-Luc Godard motion picture, Detective. Two years later she landed the title role in La Passion Béatrice and used the money she earned to pay for her first trip to New York City. Delpy continued making regular trips to New York over the next few years before finally moving there in 1990. She gained international celebrity with her portrayal of a young pro-Nazi in the 1991 film, Europa Europa. Offers came to do films in Hollywood as well as in Europe..
International Times magazine - magazine The International Times was a London-based hippie magazine which was forced to change its name fairly quickly to IT after objections from The Times newspaper, but which never really shook off its original name. It was first published in the 1960s and was printed (albeit sporadically) throughout the 1970s and into the 1980s. It was relaunched briefly in 1986. It was contemporary to the other radical underground London magazine, Oz, and many people who wrote for one also wrote for the other. The logo for IT was a black and white photo of Theda Bara vampish star of silent films. In fact the original idea was to use an image of actress Clara Bow, but Theda Barr was used accidentally. The launch party for the magazine on October 15 1966.
Innis College - renovated row-housing along Sussex Avenue). Innis College is named in homage to famous U of T political economist Harold Innis, and is perhaps best known internationally as the base college of Marshall McLuhan. Innis is also known as the college responsible for Rochdale, a center of Toronto hippie culture in the late 1960s. Innis existed as a small and peripheral college for much of its history. Its only residence was the delapidated Vladimir House on Spadina Avenue. In 1994 the new Innis College residence, a modern apartment-style building, was constructed on St. George Street just north of Robarts Library and the college immediately became more prominent. Despite the new residence Innis is still the only college not to offer a meal plan, discouraging some applicants. On a positive note, Innis was.
Hammer Horror - more Dracula pictures for Hammer: Dracula, Prince of Darkness, 1966 Dracula Has Risen From the Grave, 1968 Taste the Blood of Dracula, 1969 Scars of Dracula, 1970 Dracula AD 1972, 1972 The Satanic Rites of Dracula, 1973 Later films in the series tend to turn increasingly to self-parody, though Satanic Rites rivals Russ Meyer's Beyond the Valley of the Dolls in its amusing vision of hippie jive. Other Hammer vampire films include the Karnstein Trilogy based very loosely on J. Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla: The Vampire Lovers, 1970 The Vampire Lovers, 1971 Twins of Evil, 1972 These films featured Polish actress Ingrid Pitt, and were somewhat daring for the time in suggesting lesbian themes. Cushing, for his part, went on to make five more Frankenstein films for Hammer, including 1959's The.
Haight-Ashbury - of San Francisco, California famous from the 1960s and hippie times. Haight Ashbury was a magnet for the hippie movement due to the availability, at the time, of cheap rentals on the large victorian houses of the district. Now any house in the area is likely to sell for over $1 Million, though the area still maintains a bohemian atmosphere. Some find it ironic that a The Gap store is currently located at the intersection of Haight and Ashbury streets. The Haight is still an attractive destination for teen runaways who hang out on Haight street with their dogs and sell Marijuana to passers-by. Links A Haight-Ashbury timeline.
Heavy metal music - that have broken this mold -- Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott and Living Colour are two examples, and the audiences can be quite mixed. Instrumentation The most commonly used lineup for metal is: a drummer, sometimes using a double bass-drum, a bass guitar, a rhythm guitar, a lead guitar (in early metal bands a single guitarist often sufficed -- see power trio), and a singer (who is sometimes also one of the instrumentalists); sometimes a keyboard player can also be found. Guitar playing is very important in heavy metal. Amplification of guitars, as well as innovative effects and electronic processing is used to thicken the sound. The result was a simple yet powerful impact (although some of the original heavy metal-ers joked that their simplified sound was more the result of limited.
Heavy Metal (movie) - Pleading Not Guilty, Sternn explains to his astonished lawyer that he intends to get acquitted on account that he bribed a witness, Hanover Fiste, to praise his character. Fiste takes the stand, but his perjury is subverted by the Loc Nar he found forcing him to blurt out the truth about Sternn's evil. Fiste denounces Sternn with such fury that he changes into a muscled giant like the Incredible Hulk and chases Sternn throughout the station. Eventually, Fiste corners Sternn and promptly receives his promised payoff for his part in Sternn's plan to escape. Sternn then murders Fiste by throwing him out into space and the Loc-Nar falls to Earth for the next story. B-17: A World War II bomber makes a difficult bombing run with heavy damage and casulties. As.
VW Beetle - Model T: by 1973 total production was over 16 million. Faced with stiff competition by economical Japanese autos, sales began dropping off in the mid 70s. Production lines at Wolfsburg switched to the new water-cooled VW Golf in 1974, a car unlike its predecessor in most significant ways. Beetle production continued in smaller numbers at other German factories until 1978, but mainstream production shifted to Brazil and Mexico. Volkswagen sold Beetles in the United States until 1978 and in Europe until the mid-1980s. Like its competitors the Mini and the Citroën 2CV, the original-shape Beetle long outlasted predictions of its lifespan. More so than those cars, it maintains a very strong following worldwide, being regarded as something of a "cult" car since its 1960s association with the hippie movement. Sales of.
History of the United States (1964-1980) - but the Viet Cong-led 1968 Tet Offensive in South Vietnam shattered much of this support. There had been a movement of opposition to the war within certain quarters of the United States starting starting in 1964, especially on certain college campuses. Some Americans opposed the war on moral grounds while others opposed it because they felt it lacked clear objectives. The antiwar movement An antiwar demonstration There had been a small movement of opposition to the war within certain quarters of the United States starting in 1964, especially on certain college campuses. This was happening during a time of unprecedented leftist student activism, and of the arrival at college age of the demographically significant "baby boomers." World War II ended in 1945, and the Korean conflict ended in 1953; thus most,.
Generation gap - a shocking act of rebellion against societal norms by their parents. The large scale protests against the Vietnam War on American college campuses contrasted sharply with the universal national support for World War II that their parents had experienced. Traditional sexual mores were crumbling under the weight of the sexual revolution. Drug use increased among young people, and many youths "dropped out" into the hippie counterculture. While not all of these attributes characterized all young people, the differences were pervasive enough among enough people to cause significant friction in many areas of society. Baby boomers had a strong sense of generational identity during this period. A common catchphrase of the era among young people was "don't trust anyone over 30." This sentiment was also expressed by The Who, in their anthem.
George Carlin - Carlin continued to work as a stand-up comic. In the 1960s, Carlin began appearing on variety TV programs. His more famous skits were: Indian war parties ("You wit' the beads...get outta line"), Stupid disc jockeys ("Wonderful WINO...") Al Sleet, the "hippie-dippie weatherman." During this period, Carlin became more popular. He was cast on Away We Go, a 1967 comedy show. Carlin changed his routines, and his appearance. He lost some TV bookings by dressing as a hippie, with beard and earrings, but regained his popularity as members of the public caught up to his sense of style. It is not clear that Carlin has ever lost his hippie sensibilities; he retains his beard, ponytail, and irreverence to this day. In this period he also perfected what is perhaps his best-known routine,.
University of Pennsylvania - have modeled the Addams Family mansion on Penn's College Hall Nnamdi Azikiwe: First President of Nigeria Ernesto P. Balladares: President of Panama, 1994-1999 Chuck Bednarik: Philadelphia Eagles Linebacker Bert Bell: Former National Football League Commissioner from 1946-1959, who took the league to unprecedented heights Candice Bergen: Actress, best known as TV's Murphy Brown Nicholas Biddle: President of the Second Bank of the United States Henry Block: Founder, H&R Block Richard Block: Founder, H&R Block Len Bosack: Co-founder, Cisco Systems (Internet routers company) William J. Brennan Jr: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ron Brown: NBC International Affairs correspondent Warren Buffett (he left Penn after two years): CEO of Berkshire Hathaway, investor, second richest man in the world Britton Chance: Scientist and Olympic gold medallist who made great contributions to spectrometry and biochemistry/biophysics research.
Goa (state) - place names and some family names. English is the most widely spoken foreign language, and shops in tourist areas invariably have signs in English. Some shops also have signs in Hebrew or Finnish. View southwards of the Goan coastline The local language is Konkani, an Indo-European language related to Hindi. It is spoken by 1.5 to 2 million people in Goa and surrounding areas. The region is famous for its excellent white sand beaches, and in the 1960s was a popular destination on the Hippie trail. Today the region has a booming tourist industry, and many large hotels have been built in the last twenty years. Political History After a millennium of relatively stable Hindu rule, two centuries of alternating Hindu and Muslim dynasties ended in Goa's conquest by the Portuguese.
