Dr. Michael Wm. Doyle
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Ball State University
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HONORS 199 / SECTIONS 001: SYMPOSIUM IN CONTEMPORARY CIVILIZATION:
AMERICAN CULTURE DURING THE 1960s
Week 11:2 / Day 20 (Thurs. 22 March 2012)
Reading Assignment Study Questions
Anderson:
Chapter Five: From Counterculture to Sixties Culture,
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“Weltanschauung,” 132-139
6.2:
6.3:
6.4:
Levy:
Hugh Hefner, The Playboy Philosophy, 170-173;
Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, 173-176;
William F. Buckley, Jr., “Linda’s Crusade,” 176-178.
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Anderson, Chapter Five: From Counterculture to Sixties Culture; pp. 132-139:
1. What specific examples does Anderson furnish of how members of the counterculture
formed their own norms and values in contradistinction to those of “the Establishment”
during the late 1960s?
2. Anderson reduces the hippies’ worldview to light, peace, love, freedom, and fun.
Summarize his elaboration on these themes.
3. Which drugs did hippies routinely generally use and why, according to the
author?
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4. Where did the idea of “free love” originate and in what way was it different during the
heyday of the hippie counterculture? Which specific traditional values did this form of
sexuality undermine?
5. Hippies challenged the division between “work” and “play.” What examples does
Anderson cite to illustrate representative beliefs on this issue?
6. Anderson identifies humor as a mode of social thought within the counterculture. Give
two examples of hippie humor as furnished by Anderson. What value(s) do you think
this humor was an expression of?
7. Anderson asks, “How could hippies ‘afford’ their lifestyle”? In what ways did they
earn their livelihood and how did these reflect their world view?
8. Concisely discuss the various ways that spirituality was expressed within the
counterculture.
Levy, Document 6.2: Hugh Hefner, The Playboy Philosophy, pp. 170-173:
1. According to Levy, how was Hefner’s Playboy Philosophy related to the counterculture?
What were its wellsprings and how did it portray women?
2. Hefner cites Archibald Henderson on George Bernard Shaw for helping him conceive of
his magazine’s name, Playboy. According to Hefner, how does he intend this word to be
understood by his readership?
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3. How does Hefner justify the content of his magazine? Who is its target demographic?
Levy, Document 6.3: Helen Gurley Brown, Sex and the Single Girl, pp. 173-176:
1. According to Levy, what role did Brown play in the Sixties’ sexual revolution? How did
her views on women compare with Hugh Hefner’s in Document 6.2?
2. What does Brown think is the “single girl’s biggest problem”?
3. Why does Brown believe that the single woman is “the newest glamour girl of our
time”?
Levy, Document 6.4: William F. Buckley, Jr., “Linda’s Crusade,” pp. 176-178:
1. According to Buckley, what did the Barnard College administration do after
discovering that Linda LeClair was sharing an apartment with a fellow Columbia
student who was male? Based on the tone he uses to discuss this incident, how does
Buckley view the University’s actions?
2. What is Buckley’s opinion on LeClair’s lifestyle and how does he justify it?