Perfectly Awful

represent the mad dash for inner truthnas a know-nothing attack on conventionnand rationaHty. Thus the Beats werenheld up to ridicule while at the samentime their plastic image was safely beingnembraced in the slogans printed onnendless T-shirts. In sterilizing the Beatnprotest, liberal culture once again establishednits inaccessibility, its imperviousnessnto . . .