Word: beatness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...opinion was an extension of the terse Supreme Court ruling of last month which turned down the plea of the Little Rock school board for a delay of 2½ years in resuming its gradual integration program. At that time, trying to beat the date set for reopening of Little Rock's beleaguered Central High School, the court did not take time to write a full opinion. It more than made up for the deficit last week, with all nine Justices not only concurring but-an unusual move-sharing in the authorship of the 5,000 words read...
...F.L.N.'s response to De Gaulle's psychological offensive has been uncompromising toughness. In late August the rebels extended the war to France, and in a month of operations struck 180 times against targets ranging from oil dumps to the Eiffel Tower, from cops on the beat to Information Minister Jacques Soustelle...
...Jack Kerouac, in On the Road, defining the Beat Generation...
...will also use part of our Ford funds to hold the annual House dinner," Finley said. "Last year we had T.S. Eliot, and, although it's hard to beat that, we hope to do as well this year...
...reconfirms Kerouac's literary role as a kind of Tom Thumb Wolfe in hip clothing. Like other Kerouac novels, the book has the sound of jazzed-up autobiography, and the most fictional thing about it may well be the brand of Buddhism (ostensibly Zen) that the beat hero and his pals preach and practice...