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As a student at Columbia University in the s, he began friendships with William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouacforming the core of the Beat Generation. He vigorously opposed militarismeconomic materialismand sexual repressionand Whitman and Homosexuality embodied various aspects of this counterculture with his views on drugs, hostility to bureaucracyand openness to Eastern religions.
Ginsberg is best known for his poem " Howl " in which he denounced what he saw as the destructive forces of capitalism and conformity in the United States. The poem reflected Ginsberg's own sexuality and his relationships with a number of men, Whitman and Homosexuality Peter Orlovskyhis lifelong partner.
Horn ruled that "Howl" was not obscene: "Would there be any freedom of press or speech if one must reduce his vocabulary to Homosexuzlity innocuous euphemisms? Ginsberg was a Buddhist who extensively studied Eastern religious disciplines.
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He lived modestly, buying his clothing in Whitman and Homosexuality stores and residing in apartments in New York City 's East Village. Ginsberg took part in decades of political protest against everything from the Vietnam War to the War on Drugs. Inhe joined the Merchant Marine to earn money to continue his education at Columbia. According to The Poetry Foundation, Ginsberg spent several months in a mental institution after he pleaded insanity during a hearing. He was allegedly being prosecuted for harboring stolen goods in his dorm room.
It was noted that the stolen property was not his, but belonged to an acquaintance. Ginsberg referred to his parents, in a interview, as "old-fashioned delicatessen philosophers".
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Ginsberg later said that his mother "made up bedtime stories that all went something like: 'The good king rode forth from his castle, saw the suffering workers and healed Whitman and Homosexuality. Eliot for ruining poetry with his ' obscurantism. Naomi Ginsberg's mental illness often manifested as paranoid delusions. She would claim, for example, that the president had implanted listening devices in their home and that her mother-in-law was trying to kill her.]
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