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counterculture

Noun

Meaning

a culture with lifestyles and values opposed to those of the established culture

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Blair, p. 4. Much of the information in those files relates to his association with counterculture figures, protest organizers, musicians, and other people described by the FBI as "subversive". Source: Internet

Counterculture The books were written at the height of the late 1960s, and are infused with the popular counterculture ideas of that time. Source: Internet

A friend gave this counterculture bible to me when I was in college, at a time when I was slogging through books written by a bunch of 19th-century writers who made reading feel like hard work. Source: Internet

Allen Ginsberg, beat poet and icon of the counterculture, and Richard Helms, the director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) 1966-1973, during the most controversial years of the Vietnam War. Source: Internet

Another character in the book, George Dorn, is said to have been inspired to become a counterculture journalist after hearing the song. Source: Internet

Disco can be seen as a reaction against both the domination of rock music and the stigmatization of dance music by the counterculture during this period. Source: Internet

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