Chapter 7 Flashcards
Counterculture
it valued sexual freedom, grunge dress, communalism, zen Buddhism, LSD and living in today
The Bop Artists
the beats style was molded by black jazz musicians who were detached and relaxed
jack Kerouac
this novelist wrote one the road expressing a new sense of freedom from constraint and responsibility
William Burroughs
this junkie novelist and beatnik became a neider statesman to the counterculture
Allen ginsberg
this poet wrote howl describing Americans as a monster of repression and greed
LSD
also known as acid, it belonged to a class of mind altering or hallucinogenic substances
harvard psilocybin project
its goal in the 1960 was to provide the administrators with data on the effects of mind altering drugs
timothy leary
he was the psychology professor who led the harvard psilocybin project
tibetan Book of the Dead
timothy leary used it as a key prop for establishing the correct setting for an LSD trip
Marijuana
also know as pot or grass, this drug had been legally outlawed well before 1966
one flew over the cuckcoos nest
written in 1962, this book was about ken keseys observing life in a mental ward
Further
This was the name of the old bus that the merry pranksters retrofitted as a camper
Hippies
In September 1965, the San Francisco Examiner first used this word to describe a new breed of brighter and cheerier beatniks
Better living through chemistry
It was the byline of the DuPont Chemical company often referring to the fact that not all LSD was the same quality
Underground newspaper
By 1968, there were 50 or more of these around the country