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Sputnik, the Suez Crisis and the battle over civil rights Innovations:
A man in space, the first microchip Culture:
Bebop, New Wave ... and the birth of Motown
From Miltown to Prozac
For the past five decades, new pills have made it socially acceptable to remove the "rough edges" from the emotionally stressed. But how healthy is this so-called "cosmetic psychopharmacology"?
With the publication of "Howl" in 1956, Allen Ginsberg staked his claim as the "poet laureate of the Beat Generation." Over the next several years, he would prove a man of rebellious action as well as words.
