Meaning of be-in | Babel Free

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A gathering of hippies in a public place.

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“In the thirties poetry might have⟳ been seen as a revolutionary weapon; today the creative aspect of be-ins is permeated with a quality of appeasement, something the Fun Palace planners may not have⟳ anticipated.”

“"We have⟳ Phish, now that the Dead are gone," she ventures. "And raves. It's very much the same idea as a be-in or love-in to go to a rave."”

“For the Grateful Dead lyricist John Perry Barlow, cyberlibertarian and a founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, freewheeling file-sharing and community-building seemed like⟳ an anticorporate be-in.”

“The five-day festival was a combination of a sexual be-in and a prostitution trade⟳ fair […].”

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