"Summer of Love"

Examples of "Summer of Love" in the following topics:

• Youth Culture and Delinquency

  • Youth culture during the 1960s counterculture was characterized by the Summer of Love and the casual use of LSD and other psychedelic drugs.
  • In 1967, musician Scott McKenzie's rendition of the song "San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Flowers in Your Hair)" brought as many as 100,000 young people from all over the world to celebrate a "Summer of Love" in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood.
  • The Summer of Love became a defining moment in the 1960s as the hippie counterculture movement came into public awareness.
  • San Francisco was the center of the hippie revolution; during the Summer of Love, it became a melting pot of music, psychedelic drugs, sexual freedom, creative expression, new forms of dress, and politics.
  • When people returned home from the Summer of Love, these styles and behaviors spread quickly from San Francisco and Berkeley to many U.S., Canadian, and even European cities.

• Countercultures

  • Counterculture is a term describing the values and norms of a cultural group that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day.
  • Counterculture is a sociological term used to describe the values and norms of behavior of a cultural group, or subculture, that run counter to those of the social mainstream of the day, the cultural equivalent of political opposition.
  • In the United States, the counterculture of the 1960s became identified with the rejection of conventional social norms of the 1950s.
  • The counterculture in the United States lasted from roughly 1964 to 1973 — coinciding with America's involvement in Vietnam — and reached its peak in 1967, the "Summer of Love. " The movement divided the country: to some Americans, these attributes reflected American ideals of free speech, equality, world peace, and the pursuit of happiness; to others, the same attributes reflected a self-indulgent, pointlessly rebellious, unpatriotic, and destructive assault on America's traditional moral order.
  • Apply the concept of counterculture to the rise and collapse of the US Hippie movement

• Counterculture

  • It was characterized by the rejection of conventional social norms—in this case, the norms of the 1950s.
  • The counterculture reached its peak in the 1967 "Summer of Love," when thousands of young people flocked to the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco.
  • The counterculture lifestyle integrated many of the ideals of the time, including peace, love, harmony, music, and mysticism.
  • The "magic economy" of the 1960s gave way to the stagflation of the 1970s, and many middle-class Americans no longer had the luxury of living outside of conventional social institutions.
  • The peace sign became a major symbol of the counterculture of the 1960s.

• Art and Music

  • The music of the 1960s moved towards an electric, psychedelic version of rock, reflecting the off-beat, psychedelic characteristics of the counterculture itself.
  • The Beach Boys' 1966 album Pet Sounds paved the way for later hippie acts, with Brian Wilson's writing interpreted as a "plea for love and understanding".
  • Like pop music, lyrics often stressed romantic love but also addressed a wide variety of social and political themes.
  • The Monterey Pop Festival embodied the themes of California as a focal point for the counterculture and is generally regarded as the start of the "summer of love".
  • The concept of pop art refers as much to the art itself as to the attitudes that it led to, and Andy Warhol is often considered representative of this type of art.

• Attraction: Loving

  • The familiarity increases comfort, which in turn increases the probability of attraction and love.
  • Companionate love, on the other hand, is best defined as passionate love that has settled to a warm enduring love between partners in a relationship; in Sternberg's terms, it is comprised of intimacy and commitment. 
  • Often found in long-term relationships, the companionate love shared between partners consists of fewer ups and downs than does passionate love.
  • Romantic love derives from a combination of the intimate and passionate components of love.
  • Having all three of these components is referred to as consummate love.

• Romantic Love

  • In the context of romantic love relationships, romance usually implies an expression of one's strong romantic love, or one's deep and strong emotional desires to connect with another person intimately.
  • During the initial stages of a romantic relationship, there is more often more emphasis on emotions—especially those of love, intimacy, compassion, appreciation, and affinity—rather than physical intimacy.
  • The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.
  • Unrequited love is typical of the period of romanticism, but the term is distinct from any romance that might arise within it.
  • The conception of romantic love was popularized in Western culture by the concept of courtly love.

• Rococo in Painting and Sculpture

  • Rococo style in painting echoes the qualities evident in other manifestations of the style including serpentine lines, heavy use of ornament as well as themes revolving around playfulness, love and nature.
  • Themes relating to myths of love as well as portraits and idyllic landscapes typify Rococo Painting.
  • Watteau is known for his soft application of paint, dreamy atmosphere, and depiction of classical themes that often revolve around youth and love, exemplified in the painting ‘Pilgrimage on the Isle of Scythia' .
  • 'Pygmalion and Galatee' is indicative of Etienne Maurica Falconet's Rococo style in its depiction of lighthearted love, including a cherub indicating its predisposition to mythology.
  • The work employs serpentine lines, a reasonably pastel palette and themes of love indicative of Rococo artwork.

• Gay and Lesbian Rights

  • These groups usually preferred the term "homophile" to "homosexual", emphasizing love over sex.
  • The homophile movement has been described as politically conservative, although their calls for social acceptance of same-sex love were seen as radical views at the time.
  • Many women of the gay liberation movement felt frustrated at the domination of the movement by men and formed separate organizations.
  • Angered by the brutal treatment of the prisoners, the crowd attacked, led by transgender women of color Marsha P.
  • By the summer of 1970, groups in at least eight American cities were sufficiently organized to schedule simultaneous events commemorating the Stonewall riots for the last Sunday in June.

• Good News from Sioux Falls

  • On a cross-country trip one summer, I experienced some reminders of both these truths in an unexpected location.
  • He'd written hundreds of articles.
  • I shall keep you, and in responding to my passions, yer hatred will kindle into love. ~ John Wayne as Genghis Khan to Susan Hayward in the movie The Conqueror
  • Several states run specialized halls of fame—for instance, the Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame, the Alabama Healthcare Hall of Fame, the Wisconsin Conservation Hall of Fame, the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and the Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame.
  • What I saw and learned that summer in Sioux Falls convinced me that South Dakota's got a few very good things going for it.

• Racial Stratification

  • Race is often the basis for different types of stratification.
  • Following are some of the ways society is stratified by race.
  • This was the experience of Mildred and Richard Loving, who married in 1958 in Washington D.C., a district in the US that no longer had a law against interracial marriage.
  • Bazile, told the Lovings during their trial for miscegenation that, 'if God had meant for whites and blacks to mix, he would have not placed them on different continents. ' He also seemed to take pride in telling the Lovings, "as long as you live you will be known as a felon. " The Lovings eventually contacted the American Civil Liberties Union, who took their case to the Supreme Court in 1967, resulting in Loving v.
  • Still as late as 2002, close to 10% of people in the U.S. favored a law prohibiting interracial marriage.