All 5 Uses of
hippie
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- There were rumblings from the beatniks and early hippies at this time about "the system" and the square intellectualism that supported it, but hardly anyone guessed how deeply the whole edifice would be brought into doubt.†
Part 2 *hippies = members of the 1960's counterculture associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
- Hippies were having none of it.†
Part Aft.
- The hippies had in mind something that they wanted, and were calling it "freedom," but in the final analysis "freedom" is a purely negative goal.†
Part Aft.
- Hippies weren't really offering any alternatives other than colorful short-term ones, and some of these were looking more and more like pure degeneracy.†
Part Aft.
- Clichés and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be.†
Part 1
Definitions:
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(1)
(hippie) member of the counterculture that first became prevalent in the early 1960's in San Francisco -- associated with long hair, illegal drugs, casual sex, and opposition to violence.
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) meaning too rare to warrant focus:
Much less commonly, hippy can refer to someone's hips.