Word: woodstocker
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...never Dylan's desire to be an icon. He never meant to be compartmentalized as a protest-song writer. Indeed, his refusal to play at Woodstock and his later Christian revival period speak very strongly to his discomfort of being idolized as the father of a generation. Live 1966 was another repudiation. This is the angriest that you will ever hear...
...good management of time begins at home. "Don't have your kids overwhelmed with so many activities," says Roy M. Kern, professor of counseling and psychological services at Georgia State University. "Kids should pick one activity they really like and stick to it." Jeanne and Darin Coleman of Woodstock, Ga., with four children ranging in age from 8 months to 10 1/2 years, have a family rule of one sport at a time. Once children make a decision to take part in an activity, says Jan Allen, associate professor of child and family studies at the University of Tennessee, "parents...
Attention, boomers. The forefathers of Woodstock Nation are dead. In the past 10 years, we've bid happy trails to Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Rubin, William Burroughs and Timothy Leary. Of psychedelia's heavy hitters, only a tiny fragment of Ken Kesey remains...
This new countercultural trend doesn't have any media-approved philosophical leaders. And while it seems to be mostly inchoate, there's a segment of it that's far more sophisticated and authentically nonconformist than Woodstock Nation ever...
Meanwhile, rock festivals like Lollapalooza, H.O.R.D.E. and Lilith Fair bring out hundreds of thousands of kids we would have once called hippies. These kids aren't self-impressed enough to make a symbol of their mere existence a la Woodstock, but the festivals are far more multiracial and gender equal than the hippie fests of yore. And if the rock fests are too mainstream, there's always Burning Man, an annual festival in the Nevada desert that brings as many as 20,000 people together to engage in conscious acts of Dadaist performance...