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This confession serves to make clear in part what is behind this sexual revolution : the craving for sensation for its own sake, the need for change, for new experiences. | is | {
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Boredom is death. | is | {
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In the realm of physical sensations, sex reigns supreme. | reigns | {
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Hence the beatniks sustain themselves on marijuana, jazz, free swinging poetry, exhausting themselves in orgies of sex ; some of them are driven over the borderline of sanity and lose contact with reality. | sustain | {
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Hence the beatniks sustain themselves on marijuana, jazz, free swinging poetry, exhausting themselves in orgies of sex ; some of them are driven over the borderline of sanity and lose contact with reality. | exhausting | {
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Hence the beatniks sustain themselves on marijuana, jazz, free swinging poetry, exhausting themselves in orgies of sex ; some of them are driven over the borderline of sanity and lose contact with reality. | driven | {
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Hence the beatniks sustain themselves on marijuana, jazz, free swinging poetry, exhausting themselves in orgies of sex ; some of them are driven over the borderline of sanity and lose contact with reality. | lose | {
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One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines on a Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival. | composes | {
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One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines on a Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival. | contains | {
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The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity. | learn | {
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The new fact the initiates of this cult have to learn is that they must move toward simplicity. | move | {
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The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation. | is | {
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The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation. | find | {
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The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation. | express | {
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The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation. | produce | {
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The professed mission of this disaffiliated generation is to find a new way of life which they can express in poetry and fiction, but what they produce is unfortunately disordered, nourished solely on the hysteria of negation. | nourished | {
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Who are the creative representatives of this movement? | are | {
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They embrace independent poverty, usually with a `` shack-up '' partner who will help support them. | embrace | {
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They are full of contempt for the institution of matrimony. | are | {
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Their previous legalized marriages do not count, for they hold the laws of the state null and void. | count | {
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They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police. | feel | {
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They feel they are leagued against a hostile, persecutory world, faced with the concerted malevolent opposition of squares and their hirelings, the police. | faced | {
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This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights. | is | {
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This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights. | use | {
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This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights. | fails | {
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This is the rhetoric of righteousness the beatniks use in defending their way of life, their search for wholeness, though their actual existence fails to reach these `` religious '' heights. | reach | {
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One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up. | got | {
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One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up. | living | {
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One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up. | involved | {
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One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up. | beginning | {
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One beatnik got the woman he was living with so involved in drugs and self-analysis and all-night sessions of sex that she was beginning to crack up. | crack up | {
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What obsessions had she picked up during these long nights of talk? | picked up | {
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Everything in the final analysis reduced itself to sexual symbolism. | reduced | {
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In his chapter on `` The Loveways of the Beat Generation '', Lipton spares the reader none of the sordid details. | spares | {
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No one asks questions about the free union of the sexes in West Venice so long as the partners share the negative attitudes of the group. | asks | {
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The women who come to West Venice, having forsaken radicalism, are interested in living only for the moment, in being constantly on the move. | come | {
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Others who are attracted to this Mecca of the beat generation are homosexuals, heroin addicts, and smalltime hoodlums. | attracted | {
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Others who are attracted to this Mecca of the beat generation are homosexuals, heroin addicts, and smalltime hoodlums. | are | {
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Those who are sexual deviants are naturally drawn to join the beatniks. | are | {
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Since the homosexuals widely use marijuana, they do not have to be initiated. | use | {
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Since the homosexuals widely use marijuana, they do not have to be initiated. | initiated | {
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Part of the ritual of sex is the use of marijuana. | is | {
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As Lipton puts it : `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms. | puts | {
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As Lipton puts it : `` The Eros is felt in the magic circle of marijuana with far greater force, as a unifying principle in human relationships, than at any other time except, perhaps, in the mutual metaphysical orgasms. | felt | {
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The magic circle is, in fact, a symbol of and preparation for the metaphysical orgasm ''. | is | {
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Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being. | comes alive | {
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Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being. | experiences | {
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Under the influence of marijuana the beatnik comes alive within and experiences a wonderfully enhanced sense of self as if he had discovered the open sesame to the universe of being. | discovered | {
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Carried high on this `` charge '', he composes `` magical '' poetry that captures the organic rhythms of life in words. | Carried | {
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Carried high on this `` charge '', he composes `` magical '' poetry that captures the organic rhythms of life in words. | composes | {
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Carried high on this `` charge '', he composes `` magical '' poetry that captures the organic rhythms of life in words. | captures | {
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If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work - Allen Ginsberg 's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency - that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control. | achieves | {
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If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work - Allen Ginsberg 's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency - that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control. | pays | {
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If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work - Allen Ginsberg 's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency - that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control. | producing | {
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If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work - Allen Ginsberg 's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency - that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control. | is | {
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If he thus achieves a lyrical, dreamlike, drugged intensity, he pays the price for his indulgence by producing work - Allen Ginsberg 's `` Howl '' is a striking example of this tendency - that is disoriented, Dionysian but without depth and without Apollonian control. | is | {
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For drugs are in themselves no royal road to creativity. | are | {
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How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses. | achieve | {
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How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses. | engaged | {
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If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre. | reflects | {
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If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre. | believes | {
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If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre. | betrays | {
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If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre. | is | {
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If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre. | creating | {
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The most positive element to emerge from the Oslo meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers has been the freer, franker, and wider discussions, animated by much better mutual understanding than in past meetings. | emerge | {
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The most positive element to emerge from the Oslo meeting of North Atlantic Treaty Organization Foreign Ministers has been the freer, franker, and wider discussions, animated by much better mutual understanding than in past meetings. | been | {
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This has been a working session of an organization that, by its very nature, can only proceed along its route step by step and without dramatic changes. | been | {
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This has been a working session of an organization that, by its very nature, can only proceed along its route step by step and without dramatic changes. | proceed | {
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In Oslo, the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine attempt to get information and understanding one another 's problems. | met | {
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In Oslo, the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine attempt to get information and understanding one another 's problems. | made | {
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In Oslo, the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine attempt to get information and understanding one another 's problems. | get | {
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In Oslo, the ministers have met in a climate of candor, and made a genuine attempt to get information and understanding one another 's problems. | understanding | {
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This atmosphere of understanding has been particularly noticeable where relations are concerned between the `` colonialist '' powers and those who have never, or not for a long time, had such problems. | been | {
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This atmosphere of understanding has been particularly noticeable where relations are concerned between the `` colonialist '' powers and those who have never, or not for a long time, had such problems. | concerned | {
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This atmosphere of understanding has been particularly noticeable where relations are concerned between the `` colonialist '' powers and those who have never, or not for a long time, had such problems. | had | {
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The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicious by its absence. | exacerbated | {
"name": "exacerbate",
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} | [
"make worse"
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"exacerbate%2:30:00::"
] |
The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicious by its absence. | facing | {
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The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicious by its absence. | disapprove | {
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} | [
"deem wrong or inappropriate"
] | [
"disapprove%2:32:00::"
] |
The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicious by its absence. | brought | {
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The nightmare of a clash between those in trouble in Africa, exacerbated by the difficulties, changes, and tragedies facing them, and other allies who intellectually and emotionally disapprove of the circumstances that have brought these troubles about, has been conspicious by its absence. | been | {
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In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension. | rumored | {
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]
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"tell or spread rumors"
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"rumor%2:32:00::"
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In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension. | walk out of | {
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] | [
"walk_out_of%2:38:00::"
] |
In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension. | prove | {
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In the case of Portugal, which a few weeks ago was rumored ready to walk out of the NATO Council should critics of its Angola policy prove harsh, there has been a noticeable relaxation of tension. | been | {
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"be%2:42:00::"
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The general, remarkably courteous, explanation has left basic positions unchanged, but there has been no explosion in the council. | left | {
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] |
The general, remarkably courteous, explanation has left basic positions unchanged, but there has been no explosion in the council. | been | {
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"be%2:42:04::"
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There should even be no more bitter surprises in the UN General Assembly as to NATO members ' votes, since a new ad hoc NATO committee has been set up so that in the future such topics as Angola will be discussed in advance. | be | {
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"be%2:42:05::"
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