[lbo-talk] hippies (Re: WMT goes orgo)

[Carl Remick]

>From: Carrol Cox <cbcox at ilstu.edu>
>
>"Michael J. Smith" wrote:
> >
> >
> > Lapsing dismally into seriousness here: "hippie" was a media category --
> > if memory serves, Time magazine originally came up with the term.
>
>This is correct. It is quite remarkable how many social categories (some
>of them with no content whatever) were invented by Time...

So Time would have you believe.  Here's what Wikipedia has to say about 
"hippie":

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... The word "hippie" was popularized by the late San Francisco Chronicle 
columnist Herb Caen, who is also credited as among the first to use the 
words "beatnik" and "yuppie". ...

Etymology

Reminiscing about late 1930s Harlem in his 1964 autobiography, Malcolm X 
referred to the word hippy as a term African Americans used to describe a 
specific type of white man who "acted more Negro than Negroes."

During the 1940s and 1950s the term hipster came into usage by the American 
Beat generation to describe jazz and swing music performers, and the term 
evolved to describe the bohemian counterculture that formed around the art 
of the time. ...
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<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippie>

Carl