Rebellion against the establishment appeared in many forms in the
United States during the 1960s. Caught up in the rising frustration
circling around America's increased involvement in Vietnam, the racial
unrest in many urban areas, and the pressure to conform, a growing
number of the younger generation rejected the American way of life. The
resulting movement, termed the counterculture, embraced an alternative
lifestyle characterized by long hair, brightly colored clothes,
communal living, free sex, and rampant drug use. Distrustful of the
American government and what they perceived as an increasingly
materialistic society, hippies and other members of the counterculture
attracted a great amount of media attention during the 1960s, including
feature articles in magazines such as Time. Throughout the decade many
counterculture events increased the movement's notoriety, but two in
particular, the Summer of Love and Woodstock, epitomized the spirit of
the protests.