Read this article this morning:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/aug/22/baby-boomers-legacy-60-hutton

What interests me is the typical Baby Boomer position that relates all individual freedom, the use of drugs with 1960's rock music. As if Coltrane, Pepper, Hampton, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis etc, etc, never existed and that before The Beatles everything was in B&W and just drab conformity.

Which of course, it wasn't.

But that doesn't stop the Baby Boomers, throw in some Beatles lyrics and there you have it! Poetry. Hippy nonsense. And then stuff about excitement and collective conscience. BS. Doesn't mention the literature of the Baby Boomers, because there ain't any.

It seems to me that the original Modernists and Ivy stylists are not Baby Boomers at all, they belong to that generation born between the mid-20's and 1945. And they had literature in abundance, maybe they were the last generation to truly read?  Either way, these are the godfathers that the modern Ivy stylist takes inspiration from.