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Kerouac’s On the Road, written in the early 1950s, brought the author instant fame and helped spark the Beat movement. Beatniks, as followers were sometimes called, were often associated with their rejection of conventional standards and their anti-establishment views, which most appealed to the frustrated youth...
...three movements. Serbia's Otpor, or Resistance, the student organization that spearheaded the revolution that ousted Slobodan Milosevic in 2000, sent "trainers" to aid activists who helped unseat Georgian President Eduard Shevardnadze in 2003. And earlier this year, the group provided training to Ukraine's Pora, the biggest opposition youth group in Kiev...
...Wolfian anthropological style, life at an elite university. Its failure as a work of journalistic fiction does not stem solely from its carefully sketched out but nonetheless hopelessly clichéd characters, but also from its moral judgment of these characters as if they are objective examples of contemporary youth...
Wolfe’s portrait of the libidinal college youth of today wouldn’t be so important if it was not Wolfe writing—with all the gravitas and supposed cultural clarity he brings to the page. Famous for the New Journalism style he virtually pioneered in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and perfected in The Bonfire of the Vanities, Wolfe is the best-known novelist of the intricacies of the American cultural scene...
Talking a bit about his youth in Chelsea, Mass. (and still pronouncing his “a’s” as “ah’s”) he mentioned that he used to be part of Boston’s once vibrant jazz scene and even wrote a song about the Mystic River. It was from these beginnings that he started to play with the likes of Mongo Santamaria, Stan Getz and Miles Davis. Moving on to assemble many famed groups (including Circle, Return to Forever, the Elektric Band, the Akoustic Band and Origin...