《旅游管理专业英语》（第二版） 讲义 Lesson13 Hippie.docVIP

Hippie Hippies (singular hippie or sometimes hippy) were members of the 1960s counterculture movement who adopted a communal or nomadic lifestyle, renounced corporate nationalism and the Vietnam War, embraced aspects of Buddhism, Hinduism, and/or Native American religious culture, and were otherwise at odds with traditional middle class Western values. They saw paternalistic government, corporate industry, and traditional social mores as part of a unified establishment that had no authentic legitimacy. Origins The term derived from hipster, which referred to white people in the US who were hip or became involved with black culture, e.g. Harry The Hipster Gibson. September 6, 1965, marked the first San Francisco newspaper story, by Michael Fellon, that used the word hippie to refer to younger bohemians (as opposed to the older Beat Generation). The name did not catch on with the establishment press until almost two years later. The hippie movement reached its height in the late 1960s, as evidenced by the July 7, 1967 issue of TIME magazine, which had for its cover story: The Hippies: The Philosophy of a Subculture. The touristic influx that accompanied the highly-publicized San Francisco Summer of Love did nothing to intensify counterculture. In fact, by the time Hippiedom became commercialized, mid-late 1967, being a hippie had lost its real purpose. The people responsible for the Summer of Love held a Funeral for Hippie at the end of the summer. The last publication of the Diggers was the anthology of street news, manifestoes and articles titled The Digger Papers, that came out in August 1968. Co-published as an edition of The Realist, the Diggers distributed 40,000 free copies. Legacy By 1970, much of hippie style, but little of its substance, had passed into mainstream culture. The mainstream press lost interest in the hippie subculture as such, though many hippies made