Beat Generation
The Beat Generation, or "Beats," is a term used to describe the vanguard of a movement that swept through American culture after World War II as a counterweight to the su...
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Visual Arts And The Beat Generation
The relationship between Beat literature and the visual arts mirrors the relationship the Beats had with other areas of society. While such famous Beat authors as ...
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Performing Arts And The Beat Generation
While the works of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, and William S. Burroughs garnered considerable public attention, they were not necessarily the first advocates...
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Beat Generation Publishing: Periodicals, Small Presses, And Censorship
The Beat writers faced a significant obstacle to publication: their lifestyle and the writing that reflected it flew in the face...
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The Beat “Scene”: East And West
The settings in which the formative events of the Beat Generation took place included coffeehouses, bars, colleges, and nightclubs of New York City and San...
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The Beat Generation: An Overview
Originating in the 1950s and primarily centered in select communities of California, such as North Beach and Venice West, and New York City’s Greenwich Village,...
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"In the age that coined the word "togetherness" as a synonym for family values, the Beats, each in his own style mounted the first open, sustained assault in American history on the masculine role as ...
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"To rebel! That is the immediate objective of poets! We cannot wait and will not be held back...The `poetic marvelous' and the unconscious are the true inspirers of rebels and poets" . Philip Laman...
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The "Beat Movement" in modern literature has become an important period in the history of literature and society in America. Incorporating influences such as jazz, art, literature, philosophy and rel...
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Beat Literature:
Social and Political Impacts
After the Second World War and into the Cold War, a group of bohemians emerged. They called themselves the Beats. It was in their purpose to provide ...
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In the 1950's a movement began in the United States mostly by artists and young people in which they rejected social conditions and norms. Instead, they looked for other ways of personal fulfillment...
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Center-leftist Alvaro
Colom won Guatemala's presidential election Sunday, denying
power to a retired general who had sought to unleash the army
to fight a violent crime ...
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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - Center-leftist Alvaro
Colom won Guatemala's presidential election Sunday, denying
power to a retired general who had sought to unleash the army
to fight a violent crime ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - The name "Kerouac" typically
evokes a sense of hip, cool, rebellion, exploration and of
course "Beat," as in voice of the Beat Generation. But an exhibit opening Friday at the...
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Toyota Motor Corp. is planning to build its first new auto assembly plant in Japan in nearly two decades, Japanese media reports said Friday.The Japanese automaker said in a statement it's studying...
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Author Douglas Brinkley says he's giving back the advance he received from Penguin Group USA Inc., for failing to promptly deliver a biography on Beat Generation writer Jack Kerouac.Penguin had sue...
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Question 1 of 10:
Hemingway
and
Fitzgerald
first met in what was then the hippest city for writers and artists. Where was this?a)
New York
(0)b)
Paris
(1)c)
Monte Carlo
(0)d)
London
(0)...
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Question 1 of 10:The film industry was changed forever when the first ‘talkie’ was released in 1927. What was it called?
Modern Times
The Jazz Singer
Birth of a Nation
The General
...
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Question 1 of 10:
Nick
's father, a strapping 6'6" scientist, played a large part in developing what?
Early aeroplanes
Early nuclear generatorsThe first space rocketThe first radar systemQuestion ...
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Honda Motor Co., maker of the Civic, Accord and Odyssey vehicles, reported a 20 percent drop in profit for the January-March quarter despite solid sales that helped mark its seventh straight fiscal...
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Today is Thursday, April 5, the 95th day of 2007. There are 270 days left in the year.Today's Highlight in History:On April 5, 1792, George Washington cast the first presidential veto, rejecting a ...
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Beat Generation
Visual Arts And The Beat Generation
Discuss Homosexuality in the Beat Generation
Center-leftist beats general at Guatemala vote
