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What Rock and Roll Singer became an immensely popular entertainment celebrity?

Elvis Presley

100

True or false: Beat Poet Ginsberg’s “Howl” supported conformism and materialism

false

100

Name an item of clothing that teenagers started to wear during this time period

leather jackets

100

This dominant ideal played a large part in the 1950s:

Consensus

200

James Dean was portrayed as:

aimlessly rebellious youth

200

“Catcher in the Rye”, Blackboard Jungle, and Rebel without a cause spurred what?

panic about juvenile delinquency

200

This was often celebrated more commonly in private during the 1950s

Freedom

200

True or False- Beats believed freedom was the hallmark of American Society

False

300

This man challenged Democratic Pluralism with “Power Elite”

C. Wright Mills

300

What was limited in comic books?

the portrayal of violence and crime

300

True of False - significant generational tensions lay beneath the bland surface of 1950’s

True

300

These people were said to demonstrate greater national sacrifice than the Americans.

the Russians

400

The beat poet, Allen Ginsberg was known for:

writing “Howl” while under the influence of hallucinogenic drugs

400

This book was considered the most influential work of social analysis

The Lonely Crowd - David Riesman

400

Corporate Bureaucracies made “organized men” incapable of this:

independent thought

400

Who were the Beats?

small group of poets and writers rallied against mainstream culture

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