On 20 July 1969, Apollo 11 landed in the moon, fulfilling the American goal of that decade. These two events were crucial for the history of America, and we can assume there were many groups fascinated about the space, and technology. ... In the Article "Literary Periods, Movements and History" about The Beat Generation, a good description of this struggle is found: "people began to question the rampant materialism of their society[] they saw runaway capitalism as destructive to the human spirit, and a dissatisfaction with consumer culture.... In fact, in the Article "Liter...

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It also reflects the Beats" scorn for the pressures exerted by the forces of convention, and materialism. ... Also with Diane di Prima he founded, in 1961 the American Theater for Poets, an experimental dramatic troupe which read the works of various poets and dramatist in local coffee houses. ... He was growing tired of the Bohemians, he joined the Beat generation because he regarded its members as spiritual outsiders who were against white middle - class America. ... He felt that the Black artist must express his American experience in forms that spring from his own unique culture and tha...

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"Music expressed the feirce divisions in American culture... modern jazz musicians over the nature of music, new forms of personal freedom, racial assertiveness, and generational alienation. ... The Beat Generation was a movement that rebelled against the social and literary conformity and conservatism of white, middle class, suburban, post-war America. ... Thus, they happened upon, in the sweeped-into-the-cobwebbed corners of American life, the liquor-nursed, Benzedrine-hopped cats of smoky jazz joints. ... "Members of the Beat Garner 3Generation, responded to the conformist materialism of th...

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