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hippies

1960s “dropouts of American culture” usually identified with very long hair adorned with flowers. [Popular Culture: Misc.]

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The only thing more stereotypically 'Ibiza' than a crochet dress and rope sandals was, possibly, straight up nudity -a hippie innovation which shot Spain's conservative beaches from Franco's dark age into the enlightenment of the 20th century.

IBIZA'S SO HIP; Influence of the Island's flower power past is still bringing out the hippy in todays fashion designers

I'M BOOKING NOW: Let''s all be hippies and let the sun shine in.

It's the age of Aquarius

Most hippies, of course, didn't drop out of the mainstream forever.

Let the sun shine

The flowers these hippies are wearing were dropped from a hot air balloon.

Remember When? August 1967

The hippies had a positive philosophy of loving your neighbor.

SUMMER OF LOVE 40 YEARS LATER 1960S IDEALS OF PEACE, FREEDOM, EARTH NOT SO BAD

In the late 60s, hippies started rejecting social convention and the establishment in favour of peace, love and a belief they could change the world.

We're all hippies now, says poll

Among other things, there's a story of a tough, almost millennial faith that endures no matter how absurdly bad things may look: Even in its darkest decade of cancellation, when the only Star Trek remnant was a half-hour animated series that ran in 1973 and 1974, the fans would no more give up hope than Kirk would have surrendered the Enterprise to those space hippies.

Happy 40th birthday, Star Trek: why Captain Kirk's story is the story of America

50 a bottle, the hippies offer the hard stuff to their children.

HOW DRUG FIENDS PREY ON HOLIDAY SCHOOLCHILDREN AT HOME AND ABROAD: POLZEATH CORNWALL: WISH YOU WERE HIGHER, KIDDIES? My parents would kill me if they knew what I'm doing

A "child of the sixties", she came of age when the hippie movement was gaining ascendancy, and while the hippies got a few things right, their belief that "you have to have sex, or you won't be integrated psychologically" was directly opposed to God's order.

Held in Your keeping my weakness is strength

Like Byrd's more successful venture as keyboardist for the United States of America, the Field Hippies locked his echoey, electronic noises into a production more recognizably of its moment.

Pat O'Neill: Santa Monica Museum of Art

Beatniks, mods and rockers, hippies and `flower people' were not just confined to London.

New breed of youth coming to city

NEW age hippies - they are always likely to get the heckles up among the folks of Glenbogle.