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August 25, 2004

Hey Man, a Hippie Dictionary

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The Hippie Dictionary by John Bassett McCleary

The book is chock-full of pointed editorializing, slang and swear words culled from the vernacular of the 1960s and 1970s hippie youth, who questioned authority and created their own counterculture. ... the book's entry for the term "hippie" says, "The true hippie believes in and works for truth, generosity, peace, love and tolerance. The messengers of sanity in a world filled with greed, intolerance and war."

If McCleary sounds enamored with the era, it's because he is. A self-described aging hippie, he experienced an epiphany at the age of 24 -- during 1967's "summer of love.""I saw Janis Joplin sing 'Ball and Chain' at the Monterey Pop Festival' and it changed my life," he said. After that, he took to sporting striped bell-bottoms, experimenting with drugs and sex and hitting hippie haunts around the world. - Reuters

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Brain matter deposited by: Kat on August 25, 2004 12:07 PM