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hippie

noun as in nonconformist

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I let him select a new bedspread and I can still remember the hippie patchwork red velvet one he chose.

Dubbing it “the Californian Ideology,” they argued that the “new faith” blended the “freewheeling spirit of the hippies with the entrepreneurial zeal of the yuppies.”

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Maguire and his staff are hippie idealists, wary of sullying their political mission with trivialities like record reviews.

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Detractors say Saturday’s gatherings are hate marches by aging radical hippies and anarchists.

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Social Studies: The Summer of Love, the country’s hippie moment, took place in 1967.

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