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What was the "Beat Generation?" What are its lasting impacts on American society? What are its ancestors and offspring?
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The Beat generation embraced the extreme individualism, and took the morbid craze as an effective means to break through the bound of conventional moral and legal system. Emerged in America in 1950s.
ReplyDeleteYippie theatrics culminated at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. YIP planned a six-day Festival of Life — a celebration of the counterculture and a protest against the state of the nation. This was supposed to counter the 'Convention of Death.'[18] This promised to be "the blending of pot and politics into a political grass leaves movement — a cross-fertilization of the hippie and New Left philosophies." Yippies' sensational statements before the convention were part of the theatrics, including a tongue-in-cheek threat to put LSD in Chicago's water supply. "We will fuck on the beaches! ... We demand the Politics of Ecstasy! ... Abandon the Creeping Meatball! ... And all the time 'Yippie! Chicago — August 25-30.'"
ReplyDeletesource: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippie
Yippie theatrics culminated at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. YIP planned a six-day Festival of Life — a celebration of the counterculture and a protest against the state of the nation. This was supposed to counter the 'Convention of Death.'[18] This promised to be "the blending of pot and politics into a political grass leaves movement — a cross-fertilization of the hippie and New Left philosophies." Yippies' sensational statements before the convention were part of the theatrics, including a tongue-in-cheek threat to put LSD in Chicago's water supply. "We will fuck on the beaches! ... We demand the Politics of Ecstasy! ... Abandon the Creeping Meatball! ... And all the time 'Yippie! Chicago — August 25-30.'"
ReplyDeleteSource: Yippie theatrics culminated at the 1968 Democratic Party Convention in Chicago. YIP planned a six-day Festival of Life — a celebration of the counterculture and a protest against the state of the nation. This was supposed to counter the 'Convention of Death.'[18] This promised to be "the blending of pot and politics into a political grass leaves movement — a cross-fertilization of the hippie and New Left philosophies." Yippies' sensational statements before the convention were part of the theatrics, including a tongue-in-cheek threat to put LSD in Chicago's water supply. "We will fuck on the beaches! ... We demand the Politics of Ecstasy! ... Abandon the Creeping Meatball! ... And all the time 'Yippie! Chicago — August 25-30.'"
source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yippie