Chapter 7 Flashcards

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Counterculture

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it valued sexual freedom, grunge dress, communalism, zen Buddhism, LSD and living in today

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The Bop Artists

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the beats style was molded by black jazz musicians who were detached and relaxed

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jack Kerouac

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this novelist wrote one the road expressing a new sense of freedom from constraint and responsibility

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William Burroughs

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this junkie novelist and beatnik became a neider statesman to the counterculture

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Allen ginsberg

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this poet wrote howl describing Americans as a monster of repression and greed

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LSD

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also known as acid, it belonged to a class of mind altering or hallucinogenic substances

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harvard psilocybin project

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its goal in the 1960 was to provide the administrators with data on the effects of mind altering drugs

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timothy leary

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he was the psychology professor who led the harvard psilocybin project

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tibetan Book of the Dead

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timothy leary used it as a key prop for establishing the correct setting for an LSD trip

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Marijuana

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also know as pot or grass, this drug had been legally outlawed well before 1966

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one flew over the cuckcoos nest

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written in 1962, this book was about ken keseys observing life in a mental ward

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Further

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This was the name of the old bus that the merry pranksters retrofitted as a camper

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Hippies

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In September 1965, the San Francisco Examiner first used this word to describe a new breed of brighter and cheerier beatniks

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Better living through chemistry

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It was the byline of the DuPont Chemical company often referring to the fact that not all LSD was the same quality

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Underground newspaper

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By 1968, there were 50 or more of these around the country

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Rock music

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This form of art became the amble of social rebellion in dissent in 1960s

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Acid test

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Ken Kesey combined LSD, lights, loud rock music, and dancing to create a new art form

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Haight-ashbury

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Also known as hashbury, it was the place for hippies to live in when in San Francisco

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The diggers

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It was a strange anarchist group of artists who used guerrilla theatre to catalyze the haight-ashbury scene

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Hells angels

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This gang was known for causing trouble on their Harley Davidson motorcycles

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The summer of love

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It really began on Jan. 14, 1967 as a human be-in or a gathering of the tribes at San Fransisco golden gate park

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Tune in, drop out, take over

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This was jerry rubins slogan calling for a union of love and activism

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Youth international party

Yippies

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Jerry Rubin co-founded this organization which created the festival of life during the 1968 democratic presidential convention

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Woodstock festival

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It was a mammoth free outdoor concert that took place August 1969 in upstate New York

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East village NYC
It was the largest and most dynamic hippie settlement in the US located in the northern part of the lower east side
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Abbie Hoffman
In the east village, he opened up a retail store for SNCC crafts cooperatives in Mississippi
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Intentional communities
This was a place where men and women could lead lives untainted by the hypocrisies of the bourgeois world, and at the same time establish new, altruistic relationships
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Free universities
This movement represented one of those points where the New Left and the counterculture overlapped