Question

The 1950’s counterculture movement known as “The Beat Movement” was critical of all of the following aspects of 1950’s life except:
A)The atomic arms race between the U.S and U.S.S.R.
B)The suburban lifestyle that had developed during the postwar years.
C)the regimentation of gender roles in the 1950s
D)the corporate rat race that had developed during the postwar era

Answer 1

Hint: The historical roots of the beat movement goes back to the writers who were recognized as a generation of post-World War 2 youths who influenced American culture. The word beat implies the disinterest in social and political activity and focused on the declarations of happiness uttered during the Sermon of Mount.

Complete answer: Herbert Huncke who coined the term beat generation, Ginsberg, Lucien Carr, an American poet and Kerouac belonged to the core group of beat generation authors, they met in 1944 in New York City. The bulk of their works was popularized in the 1950s as it discussed politics in the post-war era. The key features of their narratives were the rejection of experimentation with psychedelic drugs and economic materialism under which each individual was a part of the rat race to attain and acquire material goods through money. They widely discouraged the atomic arms race between the United Nations and the Soviet Union ( U.S.S.R.). The beat Generation widely supported the idea of free love and sexual liberation by openly admitting their sexuality and featuring interracial love affairs or relationship among same-sex in their novels

Note: The beat movement was scrutinized by many magazines and writers by rendering the movement and its supporters as non-intellectual. Primarily, they rejected the movement due to the ideological differences between the movement and American culture.