Be-in

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 […].