hippie

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But he articulated things that hadn’t been part of the American grain, becoming his country’s poet laureate of nature and ethics and its hippie Founding Father.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 26, 2026

Elsewhere in the documentary, narrated by Kate Winslet, he is described as a "bit of a hippie".

From BBC • Jan. 28, 2026

That may sound like hippie woo-woo nonsense, but I’m too young to be a member of the “Woodstock generation.”

From Salon • Dec. 19, 2025

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

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 11, 2025

If she hadn’t adopted the hippie lifestyle, she would have made a terrific Marine drill sergeant.

From "Schooled" by Gordon Korman