Word: flowerings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movement. Some of the members are rather younger at heart than in years, like Moishe, an energetic 60-year-old participant in a group-marriage experiment outside San Francisco. Some of the new communalists were disillusioned radical antiwar protesters. Others were drug culturists seeking freedom from legal hassles, or flower children trying to recapture the euphoria of San Francisco's brief "summer of love." Still others were intellectual Utopians out to build non-nuclear families along the lines of B.F. Skinner's Walden Two. Most of them were urban ex-bourgeois who had frustrating confrontations with agricultural hard...
...room (made with the help of Universal Television) is a stunning perceptual experience: a pitch-black chamber lined with strobe lights. When they flash, the effect is engulfing and somewhat unnerving: silhouettes etch themselves on the retina as on film, and afterimage sheets of brilliant color drift and flower across the entire field of vision. Mefferd's piece is unique in that it is wholly objectless art -everything happens on and to the retina without mediation...
...hello." But their love seems more sincere than a slogan, deeper than the fast-fading sentiments of the flower children; what startles the outsider is the extraordinary sense of joy that they are able to communicate. Of course, as in any fresh religious movement, zealotry is never far away. Some in the movement even have divine timetables. Says Founder Bill Bright of the Campus Crusade for Christ: "Our target date for saturating the U.S. with the gospel of Jesus Christ is 1976?and the world by 1980. Of course, if the Lord wants to work a bit slower, that...
...enthusiasm is not universal. By no means a majority of the young, or their elders, are soldiers in the revolution ?any more than they were flower children or acid trippers. Some call the Jesus movement a fad or just another bad trip. Is it? Is the growing fascination with Jesus a passing, adolescent infatuation? There are obvious fad aspects: Jesus shirts (JESUS is MY LORD) bumper stickers (SMILE, GOD LOVES YOU), posters, buttons (THE MESSIAH is THE MESSAGE) and, inevitably, a Jesus-People wristwatch. Some followers are affecting a Christ couture: white pants and tunics, Mexican-peasant style. There...
...JESUS PEOPLE, also known as Street Christians or Jesus Freaks, are the most visible; it is they who have blended the counterculture and conservative religion. Many trace their beginnings to the 1967 flower era in San Francisco, but there were almost simultaneous stirrings in other areas. Some, but by no means all, affect the hippie style; others have forsworn it as part of their new lives...