1960s americian dream?

Question

tell me the drean

Answer 1

2 kids and a house in the burbs.....and a big ol car....
Giggle, Charco is right about the tupperware, in the 60's our whole lives were stored in the stuff!
Here is a link you might find useful, it's a website about the post war American Dream of life in burbs from the late 40's into the 60's, about a development named Levittown, very typical of the post-war American dream, and we were still pursuing the dream in this way in the early to mid 60's....
http://tigger.uic.edu/~pbhales/Levittown/

Answer 2

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1960s americian dream?
tell me the drean

Answer 3

American Dream 1960s

Answer 4

Hi!

The 1960's American Dream was well summed up by Joni Mitchell in her song "Woodstock", most notably in lines like:

"We are stardust; we are Golden -
and we've got to get ourselves back to the Garden ...

.. and I dreamed I saw the bombers riding shotgun in the skies
turn into butterflies
above our nation ...".

The dream was universal love, freedom for all, that the people would somehow help the American government wake up to the implications of its domestic and foreign policies and the need to nurture the planet.

That is how the "American Dream" seemed to this protest song writing flower child living in Britain as the American Dream turned sour. As Joni also said in her "Big Yellow Taxi lyric:

"Don't it always seem to go
that you don't know what you've got 'til it's gone?
They took paradise and put up a parking lot".

Good Wishes

Answer 5

I like how James Truslow put it. The term was first used by James Truslow Adams in his book "The Epic of America" which was written in 1931. He states: "The American Dream is "that dream of a land in which life should be better and richer and fuller for everyone, with opportunity for each according to ability or achievement. It is a difficult dream for the European upper classes to interpret adequately, and too many of us ourselves have grown weary and mistrustful of it. It is not a dream of motor cars and high wages merely, but a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be able to attain to the fullest stature of which they are innately capable, and be recognized by others for what they are, regardless of the fortuitous circumstances of birth or position."

Answer 6

...droping out of school to join the army so that in a month you can fake a purple heart and become a drug addict hippy who moves to california and stands on the corner of most trashy part of town trying to score with a chick whos a hippy just like him....oh, and hell use a stolen megaphone to tell people how america sucks. :)

Answer 7

A house full of tupperware