Youth. Adult. Fashion. Beatniks. Hipsters. Beatnik Writers. Jack . Keruoac. Beatnik Writers. Allen Ginsberg. The first part of “Howl” presents a picture of a nightmare world; the second part is an indictment of those elements of modern society destructive to the best qualities of human nature ..... ID: 464249
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1950s Pop Culture
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Youth
Adult
Fashion
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Beatniks
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Hipsters
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Beatnik Writers
Jack
Keruoac
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Beatnik Writers
Allen Ginsberg
The first part of “Howl” presents a picture of a nightmare world; the second part is an indictment of those elements of modern society destructive to the best qualities of human nature . . . materialism, conformity, and mechanization leading toward war . . . It ends in a plea for holy living
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—Superior Court Judge Clayton Horn, 1957
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Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock
#1 Most Expensive painting in the world
= $148 million
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a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold.—Lewis Mumford The City in History, 1961
I drive my car to supermarketThe way I take is superhigh,A superlot is where I park it,And Super Suds are what I buy.Supersalesmen sell me tonic—Super-Tone-O for Relief.The planes I ride are supersonic.In trains, I like the Super Chief.—John Updike Superman, 1954
They are not the workers . . . in the usual . . . sense of the word. These people not only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life.—William Whyte The Organization Man, 1956
Critics of Conformity
[The middle-class suburban child] “learns to conform to the group almost as soon as he learns anything.” [Such children grow up valuing] “fitting in” [with their peers far above thinking for themselves or striving for individual achievement.]-- David Riesman The Lonely Crowd
Television was nicknamed the
“idiot box”
and called by poet T.S. Eliot
a“medium
of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the
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Presentations text content in 1950s Pop Culture
1950s Pop Culture
Slide2Youth
Adult
Fashion
Slide3Beatniks
Slide4Hipsters
Slide5Slide6Beatnik Writers
Jack
Keruoac
Slide7Beatnik Writers
Allen Ginsberg
The first part of “Howl” presents a picture of a nightmare world; the second part is an indictment of those elements of modern society destructive to the best qualities of human nature . . . materialism, conformity, and mechanization leading toward war . . . It ends in a plea for holy living
.
—Superior Court Judge Clayton Horn, 1957
Slide8Abstract Expressionism
Jackson Pollock
#1 Most Expensive painting in the world
= $148 million
Slide9Slide10a multitude of uniform, unidentifiable houses lined up inflexibly, at uniform distances, on uniform roads, in a treeless communal waste, inhabited by people of the same class, the same income, the same age group, witnessing the same television performances, eating the same tasteless prefabricated foods, from the same freezers, conforming in every outward and inward respect to a common mold.—Lewis Mumford The City in History, 1961
I drive my car to supermarketThe way I take is superhigh,A superlot is where I park it,And Super Suds are what I buy.Supersalesmen sell me tonic—Super-Tone-O for Relief.The planes I ride are supersonic.In trains, I like the Super Chief.—John Updike Superman, 1954
They are not the workers . . . in the usual . . . sense of the word. These people not only work for the Organization. The ones I am talking about belong to it as well. They are the ones of our middle class who have left home, spiritually as well as physically, to take the vows of organization life.—William Whyte The Organization Man, 1956
Critics of Conformity
[The middle-class suburban child] “learns to conform to the group almost as soon as he learns anything.” [Such children grow up valuing] “fitting in” [with their peers far above thinking for themselves or striving for individual achievement.]-- David Riesman The Lonely Crowd
Television was nicknamed the
“idiot box”
and called by poet T.S. Eliot
a“medium
of entertainment which permits millions of people to listen to the
same
joke at the
same
time, and yet remain
lonesome
.”
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