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Anti-yuppie graffiti criticizing the gentrification of Austin, Texas. Yuppie, short for "young urban professional" or "young upwardly-mobile professional", [1] [2] is a term coined in the early 1980s for a young professional person working in a city. [3]
While many hippies made a long-term commitment to the lifestyle, some people argue that hippies "sold out" during the 1980s and became part of the materialist, self-centered consumer yuppie culture. [ 106 ] [ 107 ] Although not as visible as it once was, hippie culture has never died out completely: hippies and neo-hippies can still be found on ...
As a hippie Ken Westerfield helped to popularize Frisbee as an alternative sport in the 1960s and 1970s. Much of hippie style had been integrated into mainstream American society by the early 1970s. [57] [58] [59] Large rock concerts that originated with the 1967 Monterey Pop Festival and the 1968 Isle of Wight Festival became the norm ...
Young, upwardly mobile, and professional described the trajectory for many Americans in the 1980s, and caused us to coin the word "Yuppies." But today, in the 2010s, the trajectory is the opposite ...
Infamous Baltimore Yippie John Waters became a renowned independent filmmaker (Pink Flamingos, Polyester, Hairspray), once claiming in an interview that the Yippies influenced his irreverent sense of style: "I was a Yippie agitator, and I wanted to look like Little Richard. I dressed like a hippie pimp back then, because punk wasn't around yet ...
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Jerry Clyde Rubin (July 14, 1938 – November 28, 1994) was an American social activist, anti-war leader, and counterculture icon during the 1960s and early 1970s. Despite being known for holding radical views when he was a political activist, he ceased holding his more extreme views at some point in the 1970s and instead opted for a successful career as a businessman.
Fallon reportedly came up with the name by condensing Norman Mailer's use of the word hipster into hippie. [24] Use of the term hippie did not become widespread in the mass media until early 1967, after San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen (the same columnist who had coined the term beatnik in 1958) began referring to hippies in his ...