Howl, motif: Drugs

Examples of drugs in Allen Ginsberg’s poem, “Howl”… HOWL I “I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo” “hollow-eyed and high sat up smoking” [...]

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Arthur Miller & Loyalty… (4/5/09)

Loyalty was little to many under questioning by HUAC and McCarthy in the 1950s. As is told through metaphorical storytelling in Miller’s “The Crucible”, if one is to live in a time of paranoia, one must first confess and then name names. Further, a wife was still expected to have loyalty in the 1950s, to [...]

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