The eight absent flower children from Dimuchong village alone make a mockery of that claim.

ECONOMIST: China

In the past century as feminists discovered the clitoris, gay liberationists discovered homosexuality, and flower children discovered free love the illusion of erotic novelty entered mass culture.

NEWYORKER: Novelty Acts

"Frodo lives, " declared the flower children's buttons in the 1960s, but everyone here lives vividly, from Viggo Mortensen's Aragorn, Ian McKellen's Gandalf, Orlando Bloom's Legolas, Sean Astin's Sam and Elijah Wood's Frodo to Miranda Otto's radiant Lady Eowyn, who delivers, with joyous understatement, the movie's most rousing line: "I am no man!"

WSJ: Now That's an Epic

They are heading for around 15% under Krista Sager, a tough Realpolitikerin about as far as could be from the flower-power children who founded the Greens in the late 1970s.

ECONOMIST: Germany

Today, Kopila -- which means "flower bud" in Nepali -- is home to about 50 children, from infants to teenagers.

CNN: Hero Maggie Doyne

After all, in focusing the international spotlight on the leader of this campaign, the committee has put into sharp relief the true character of this campaign: an aging Flower Child's crusade that is approximately as out of touch with reality as that mounted by actual children bent on liberating the Holy Land some eight centuries ago.

CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: An aging flower child's crusade

Historically, children from the Fields have had the right to attend primary school in Pagford, a place of flower baskets and other middle-class comforts, and the town has also supported a drug-treatment clinic that serves the neighborhood.

NEWYORKER: Mugglemarch