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| Beat Gen·er·a·tion |
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1. youth movement in 1950s America: young people in the 1950s who rejected the traditional values, customs, and dress of Western society and experimented with Eastern philosophies, communal living, and illegal drugs
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2. 1950s writers: a group of writers associated with the attitudes of the Beat Generation, including Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg
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