540 Broadway  

37.798075, -122.406192 (OpenStreetMap, Google Maps, Yandex Maps)

The Beat museum. Window display outside
Which word is repeated 3 times?
Books; книги

Historical background

The Beat Generation was a literary movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. The term "Beatnik" was coined by Herb Caen of the San Francisco Chronicle in 1958, blending the name of the recent Russian satellite Sputnik and Beat Generation. The core group of Beat Generation authors met in 1944 in and around the Columbia University campus in New York City. Later, in the mid-1950s, the central figures ended up together in San Francisco, where they met and became friends of figures associated with the San Francisco Renaissance. In the 1960s, elements of the expanding Beat movement were incorporated into the hippie and larger counterculture movements.

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  • Lion-Mini: 7/7 (100%)