Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fortunately, each of us holds exactly one vote in determining how the language shall be used, and there ain't a damn thing that Goldman, Barzun, et al., can do except bitch about...
...court and, figuring that "I'd rather be prosecuted for my transgression against the Virginia traffic code than be persecuted for being a freak," he invested in one of Woodford's wigs. He didn't beat the rap, but the arresting officer said: "Well, one good thing came out of this: you got your hair cut." Another bought his wig so that customs agents would not search him for marijuana after a trip to South America...
Youth's sense of community is an ad hoc thing: it is suspicious of institutions and wary of organization, prizing freedom above system. In this, as in many other ways, the youth of Bethel displayed adherence to the prevailing spirit of the hippie movement. It is true enough that the manifestation of flower power in Haight-Ashbury and the East Village became a bad scene of gang rapes, deaths from malnutrition and too much speed. It is equally true that most of those at Bethel were not hippies in the commonly accepted sense: a good half of them, at least...
...civilization it has produced. With surpassing ease and a cool sense of authority, the children of plenty have voiced an intention to live by a different ethical standard than their parents accepted. The pleasure principle has been elevated over the Puritan ethic of work. To do one's own thing is a greater duty than to be a useful citizen. Personal freedom in the midst of squalor is more liberating than social conformity with the trappings of wealth. Now that youth takes abundance for granted, it can afford to reject materialism...
...largely inner-directed and uncontrolled by adult doyens. The rock festival, an art form and social structure unique to the time, is a good example. "They are not mimicking something done in its purest form by adults," says one prominent U.S. sociologist. "They are doing their own thing. All this shows that there is a breakdown in the capacity of adult leaders to capture the young." Some other observers agree that the youth movement is a politics without a statesman, a religion without a messiah. "We don't need a leader," insists Janis Joplin. "We have each other...