...each line. The poem began with powerful lines that would have grabbed the attention of the audience: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix." Ginsberg's use of long Whitmanic lines, his stark presentation of contemporary urban life, and his...

...the junkies, helpless, hooked, lost, thin, confused creatures, sick and the police and the informers. I SAW THE BEST MINDS OF MY GENERATION DESTROYED BY...THE NEGRO STREETS AT DAWN LOOKING FOR AN ANGRY FIX. And then we started planning the psychedelic revolution. Allen wanted everyone to have the mushrooms....

...new work, "Howl." Ginsberg, articulating the viewpoint of postwar rebels without a cause, lamented, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix,/angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly connection to the starry dynamo in the machinery...

...lamplight gilded his glasses. "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness," he spoke. "Starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through...the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix . . ." "Down, down, down into the darkness of the grave," Kit said hollowly. "Gently they go, the beautiful,...

...best target was highbrow art, and the equivalent of radical politics was dope. "Howl" famously begins, "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix. . . .""The best minds of his generation?" someone remarked to me at the time. "It makes you wonder...

...(Allen Ginsberg's groundbreaking Howl was published in 1956), were blaring about the best minds of their generation "destroyed by madness, starving hysterical...negro streets at dawn / looking for an angry fix." Other poets, such as Robert Lowell, John Berryman, and WD Snodgrass were writing confessionally about...

...plaintive howl and accept me for who I am — a man, a flawed, simple man, a warrior, a lover ... a poet." "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...hysterical, naked, dragging themselves through the hallways of the Pentagon at dawn looking for an angry fix...." * * Rummy s Daily Briefing lingers!...

...twentieth-century Hip generation whose poet Allen Ginsberg in his lamentation called "Howl" wrote: I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by...starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through . . . streets at dawn looking for an angry fix, angelheaded hipsters burning for the ancient heavenly...

...of misfortune, out to lunch in 501s, notching up the pricks in the disco, we heard prophetic voices. I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving, hysterical, naked, not with a bang, but a whimper. And gathered everything you threw out of your dream houses, treasured...

...Ferlinghetti's City Lights Publishing Company. Lines such as the following unsettled the establishment: "I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness. starving hysterical naked. . ." and "stained shrieks of frantic defiance." Their response: "We have had smoking attacks on the...