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Beat Generation

NOUN:

A group of American writers and artists popular in the 1950s and early 1960s, influenced by Eastern philosophy and religion and known especially for their use of nontraditional forms and their rejection of conventional social values.

ETYMOLOGY:
Short for beatific

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