| http://www.w3.org/ns/prov#value | - Beat writers such as Jack Kerouac, William Burroughs, and Allen Ginsberg were among ???the first to protest what they considered to be the blandness, conformity, and lack of serious social and cultural purpose in middle-class life in America,??? writes Halberstam. ???They saw themselves as poets in a land of philistines, men seeking spiritual destinies rather than material ones.???14
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