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beat generation
proper noun
A group of countercultural American writers who came to prominence in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Their most important works are Jack Kerouac's On the Road (1957), Allen Ginsberg's Howl (1956), and William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch (1959).
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The Beat Generation is faultfinders not artists.
Bangs worshipped the Beat generation.
The "Beat Generation" and its artists display readily recognizable stigmata.
Beat Generation is at Centre Pompidou, Paris, until 3 October.
JD Salinger, The Beat Generation (http://www.levity.com/corduroy/salinger.htm).htm
Another promising themed night is dedicated to the beat generation.
Helived in the subterranean realm of the beat generation.
Sean Wilentz on Dylan's intersection with the Beat generation (2010).
"The beat generation," Sahl used to say, "is a coffeehouse full of people expectantly looking at their watches waiting for the beat generation to come on".
Yet, here, the self-proclaimed brilliance of the Beat generation is stained by a shabby killing.
(He also scored the new Beat Generation biopic, "Kill Your Darlings").
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