Art, Literature and Society from 1955-1970 Fear and Loathing in a Clockwork Age Ah! ... The post-war generation developed an interesting love-hate relationship with the mass culture of it's time. ... The sexual, spiritual, and intellectual freedom and autonomy that characterized the Haight-Ashberry scene were closer to the Whitmanesque ideal than anything achieved during his life time. ... The war machine of WW2 had given many women their first pay check. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

And the numerous amount of literature and plays he produced during each time period in his life. ... He also wrote a lot anti-semitic poetry at the same time. ... (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxiv) Amiri is all about using poetry as a machine-gun, he once made a comment "we want poems that kill" (Amiri Baraka Reader, pg. xxv). ... The Black arts era, both in terms of creative and theoretical writing is the most important one in black literature since the Harlem Renaissance. ... At this time he and his wife changed their name to Immanu Amiri Baraka and Amina Baraka. ...

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Ken Kesey was one of the greatest and most unique authors of our time. ... The effects were unpredictable most of the time and the "bad trips" lasted about 8 to 12 hours. ... Everyone always had a good time while they were there because they were either high or saw hallucinations. ... Most of the literature that was written by them at that time celebrated freedom and was influenced by drugs and sexuality. ... They start the fog machine again and it's snowing down cold and white all over me like skim milk, so thick I might even be able to hide in it if they didn't have a hold on ...

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• Grade Level: High School