Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wildly excited Negroes who had come to greet him. "Kwaca! Kwaca! Kwaca!" they roared back, screaming the African nationalist slogan that means dawn (i.e., the beginning of freedom). They draped their hero in a ceremonial leopard skin, carried him on their shoulders to a car, yelled and beat tom-toms as he drove off, escorted by red-robed young "freedom fighters" on motorcycles. Thus last week, after 40 years of self-imposed exile, Dr. Hastings Kamuzu Banda, 53-"savior, liberator and messiah"-came home...
...them carrying what could have been a rifle case, had left his cab near the golf course where Ike was playing a round with three companions. Notified of the cab driver's suspicions, Ike calmly finished his round (score: 89) while a detail of Mounties beat the surrounding bushes in a vain search for the suspicious strangers...
...Buddhism is growing more chic by the minute. Latest evidence: the summer issue of Chicago Review, which contains nine articles on the subject, a poem, and an excerpt from Zen-loving, "beat" Novelist Jack (On the Road) Kerouac's forthcoming The Dharma Bums. Begins Kerouac: "LET THERE BE BLOWING-OUT AND BLISS FOREVERMORE...
Evidently Monocle's still worried about the McCarthy era and the witch-hunts. Its prose and poetry are stranded between a sense of persecution and the cocktail party undergraduate skepticism which rules out being Beat or anything else with a more definitive label than lazy. America-baiting went out of intellectual fashion along with Johnny Ray, and college sophomores usually discover that if this country's not much better than most others, it's certainly no worse. Monocle hasn't made that discovery; like a little boy stealing nickles from the collection plate, it's still getting its adrenalin from...
Other testimony: Sommer beat a Weimar pastor, hung him outside, dashed buckets of water on him and left him to freeze to death. He beat a Catholic priest to death for hearing the confession of a fellow prisoner...