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The Way We Lived In The 1960s And 1970s

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Though the dictionary defines a hippie as anyone who rejects the conventional customs of society, in America the hippies were a very specific group that developed in response to the countercultural movements of the 1960s and 1970s. Although the term was sometimes applied too broadly (especially by the “straights,” whose world the hippies scorned), hippies tended to be gentle people who embraced colorful clothing, nonpossessive sexual relationships, the use of marijuana (see entry under 1960s—The Way We Lived in volume 4 ) and LSD, communal living, and a “live for today” philosophy. On Broadway (see entry under 1900s—Film and Theater in volume 1 ), the musical Hair (see entry under 1960s—Film and Theater in volume 4 ) opened in 1968 to celebrate

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