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It was in this climate that the young generation was seeking meaning.

Amidst all the conflict and contradiction, the Beats were seeking out a way to navigate through the world.

As John Clellon Holmes put it, “ Everywhere the Beat Generation seems occupied with the feverish production of answers — some of them frightening, some of them foolish — to a single question: how are we to live ?”