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Definition of Countercultural
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Countercultural
Literary usage of Countercultural
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Urban Condition: space, community, and self in the contemporary metropolis by Ghent Urban Studies Team (1999)
"The phantasmagoria that he sees acted out every day in the streets of New York
is a cocktail of countercultural politics, sexual liberation, mediatization, ..."
2. One America Indivisible: A National Conversation on American Pluralism and by Sheldon Hackney (1999)
"... from Brook Farm in the 1840s to The Farm (the late 1960s countercultural
collective in Tennessee), from the Old Order Amish who resist all innovation to ..."
3. Youth & Drugs: Society's Mixed Messages edited by Hank Resnik (1994)
"countercultural motives persisted after the 1960s, but the counterculture foundered
both from external pressures (above all, the end of the economic boom) ..."
4. The New Detente: Rethinking East-West Relations by Mary Kaldor, Gerard Holden, Richard A. Falk (1989)
"Not only peace services, concerts and artists' performances but also rallies,
seminars and conferences have had a countercultural focus: to light candles in ..."
5. New English Canaan: Notes & Text by Thomas Morton (2000)
"... "countercultural" admiration), and a place in the fire beside his worst rivals'
books, appear to have greeted most of Morton's "memorial to after ages" ..."
6. Biblical Counsel: Resources for Renewal : an Annotated Topical Bibliography by Steven C. Kettler (1993)
"... Campolo shows how. ln everyday life, you can live out a Biblical faith that's
energetic, thoroughly countercultural, and committed to serving the poor. ..."
7. Achieving High Educational Standards for All: Conference Summary by Christopher F. Edley, Timothy Ready, Catherine E. Snow (2002)
"... of learning were quickly finding their way into the classroom: I don't think
I can overemphasize how countercultural and important these principles are. ..."
8. Development Is Back by Jorge Braga de Macedo, Colm Foy, Charles Oman (2002)
"... there can be little doubt that the "simple living" message of the "limits to
growth" school resonated with the countercultural zeitgeist of that period. ..."
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