Friday, January 20, 2012

Class Notes

Oral Presentations:
  • stand up straight, show confidence
  • no margin for error; use a buffer
  • practice in front of a mirror
  • don't put too much info on slides
Beat Movement:
  • destroyed minds - Hollow Men
  • disorienting/stream of consciousness, leads to more raw emotion
  • trashed tradition, while modernists mourned loss of tradition
  • pessimism/cynicism
  • more descriptive, less elusive, not as elite
  • counterculture
  • drug use, more sexual expression, more religious freedom
1950s USA:
  • red scare, HUAAC
  • paranoia, witch hunt
  • conformity, suburban middle class
  • materialism, capitalism, patriotism
Who's destroyed?
  • Moloch! capitalism, war, requires sacrifice
  • artists
  • suicide, mental illness, institutionalized
  • police presence

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