love-ins
Hippie group hugs
Love-ins were peaceful gatherings associated with 1960s counterculture, where participants congregated to express love, unity, and opposition to war—often with music, flowers, and psychedelic drugs.
The term captures the era's ethos of communal harmony and gentle protest: The love-in at Golden Gate Park drew thousands.
Now used nostalgically or ironically for any gathering perceived as excessively harmonious or idealistic.
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
- peaceniksSlang for antiwar advocates
- happeningEvent in progress
counterculture · alternative lifestyle · communes · psychedelia · bohemian · nonconformity · drop out · tune in
Opposed to armed conflict
- peace movementCampaign advocating nonviolent resolution
- Vietnam WarCold-era Indochina military engagement
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
- sit-inProtest by remaining seated
civil disobedience · nonviolent · activism · resistance · draft resistance · pacifism · march · rally
Focused attention practice
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- Eastern philosophyAsian intellectual traditions
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
- cosmicPertaining to the universe
harmony · oneness · mantra · incense · enlightenment · Krishna · guru · awakening
Outside, not indoors
- parkPublic leisure grounds
- public spaceArea open to everyone
- crowdLarge public gathering
- assemblyConstructing from components
festival · celebration · music · dancing · sharing · community · togetherness · spontaneous
hippies
Countercultural youth of the sixties
- flower powerNonviolent resistance ideology
- Haight-AshburyCounterculture crossroads in San Francisco
- peaceniksSlang for antiwar advocates
happening · counterculture · alternative lifestyle · communes · psychedelia · bohemian · nonconformity · drop out · tune in · turn on
antiwar
Opposed to armed conflict
- peace movementCampaign advocating nonviolent resolution
- Vietnam WarCold-era Indochina military engagement
- demonstrationPublic display of opinion
sit-in · civil disobedience · nonviolent · activism · resistance · draft resistance · pacifism · march · rally · dissent
meditation
Focused attention practice
- chantingRhythmic repetitive vocalization
- Eastern philosophyAsian intellectual traditions
- transcendenceSurpassing usual limits
cosmic · harmony · oneness · mantra · incense · enlightenment · Krishna · guru · awakening · inner peace
outdoor
Outside, not indoors
- parkPublic leisure grounds
- public spaceArea open to everyone
- crowdLarge public gathering
assembly · festival · celebration · music · dancing · sharing · community · togetherness · spontaneous · informal
- PsychedeliaLSD, acid, psychedelic posters, tie-dye, hallucination
- Sixties Activismanti-war movement, anti-war protests, campus protests, counterculture, draft resistance
- social movementscivil rights movement, women's liberation, labor movement, feminist movement, suffrage movement
- 1967Six-Day War, Monterey Pop, Super Bowl I, Thurgood Marshall, Detroit riots
love-insriots
Violent public disturbances
race riots · mob violence · lynch mobs · pogroms · melees
love, loves, loved, loving, lovingly, lover, lovers, lovely, lovelier