Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thigh Noon. In Clinton, S.C., when Joe Spillers and Edgar Ballew tried to see who could beat the other to the draw, neither man got his pistol out of its holster, each shot himself...
...when his men were caught in crossfire, with some "good, plain Missouri talk." Had the chaplain rebuked Harry for his ear-scorching remarks? Replied Tiernan: "Oh, hell no!-sorry." On a pickup from the Chicago wingding, Adlai Stevenson defined hell-giving Harry as "an irrepressible member of the non-Beat Generation." When the long love feast ended, the guest of honor was moved as seldom before: "I can't express what I feel because, if I did, I would be unable to talk." Next day, with wife Bess at his side, Harry Truman took a train back to Independence...
Clinical candor about sex and the uncommuncative discourse of the hipster are poor substitutes for sound thought and mature craftsmanship, whch explains why so few of the works of the Beat literati have been interesting, let alone readable. Easy Living, at least, is comprehensible, but the hippies who hop in and out of the beds Zane has made for them are, on the whole, lifeless forms. Rarely to they seem human; often they seem to be nothing more than sex machines. One more pot of hashish or an additional romp in the love bed could not save the book. Zane...
...College. To stem the flood of refugees from the heat, Lamont might well check bursar's cards or, better still, install parking meters on the study cubicles. These measures would keep out outsiders, discourage nonscholars, and bring in even more money than library fines. Let the unwanted beat a path to Widener...
...have a new generation that we call 'the beat generation,'" David Egger suddenly said. "They are young people, many of them students, who are loafing around, not working. They don't believe in anything. They have lost faith in the power of reason...