Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Alabama. Negroes and whites attend classes together only in two small private colleges. When an ill-advised Negro preacher in Birmingham tried to enroll Negro children at a white school last week amid growing tension fanned by the recent emasculation of a Negro and the news from Arkansas, rowdies beat him and drove him away...
...Chicago-New York-Washington law practice, Stevenson toured Africa and Europe on a three-month, 16-nation jaunt, wrote articles, delivered speeches, held press conferences, appeared on television shows, enjoyed publication of his biography and his collected 1956 campaign speeches. At intervals, he thumped away at the man who beat him twice-and at some politicians in his own party. Stevenson openly disapproved of the civil rights compromise approved by Presidential Prospect Lyndon Johnson, snorted loudly at the independence and interdependence scheme for Algeria advanced by Presidential Prospect John Kennedy...
...feel in the early hours of one of her own parties that, with large numbers of titled internationals hovering in the background and Soprano Maria Callas (a shapely unoperatic bathing beauty by day) beside her humming Stormy Weather, Elsa banged away at the piano, blew the saxophone, valiantly beat the drums-admittedly out of beat with the rest of the band...
...time in his mother's house in Orlando, Fla., painting (on cheap paper, with a mixture of house paint and glue) and writing (sometimes in much the same style). Having learned that the Left Bank ''lost generation" era is no more, he writes about the "beat generation"-and "beat," he says, really stands for "beatific...
...post-World War II generation-beat or beatific-has not found symbolic spokesmen with anywhere near the talents of Fitzgerald, Hemingway or Nathanael West. In this novel, talented Author Kerouac, 35, does not join that literary league, either, but at least he suggests that his generation is not silent. With his barbaric yawp of a book. Kerouac commands attention as a kind of literary James Dean...