Word: beatnik
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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DIED. ALLEN GINSBERG, 70, quintessential beatnik poet; of a heart attack brought on by chronic liver disease; in New York City. Forming the trinity of the 1950s Beat Generation along with William Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, Ginsberg first raged into public view in 1956 with Howl, a profane tirade that railed against a conformist society and dealt, rather graphically, with his homosexuality. In the '60s and '70s, he was active in both the hippie and antiwar movements. His poetry prefigured punk and New Age, encompassing protest and psychedelics, drawing inspiration from yoga, Buddhism, Native American mysticism, the Torah and fellow...
...next day I swang by Newbury ("Shop here, die happy") Comics on my way home from class. I circled the store twice, browsing the trendy t-shirts, the beatnik literature, the Pulp Fiction posters and, of course, the tons and tons of CDs. Rock, reggae, rap, folk, country, jazz, blues, classical, comedy, spoken word, soundtracks, compilations--yet amazingly, I couldn't find what I was looking...
...that Bangladesh's problems must not stem from overpopulation since the city of Freemont, California, is just as crowded and yet sustains a pleasant, middle-class life- style; the idea that most Amazon Indians would rather move out of the rain forest; a description of Thoreau as a "sanctimonius beatnik." Still, O'Rourke is funny. In the Amazon he encounters one Yagua Indian with a grass skirt so elaborate that "he was lucky he hadn't been declared an endangered ecosystem from the waist down...
1.Kudgel "Wow" 2. Shellac "Doris" 3. Soap-Jo-Henshi "USHi" 4. Mecca Normal "Waiting for Rudy" 5. Bastard Kestrel "Motofry" 6. The Beats "Beatnik Bounce" 7. Hugh Beauont Experience "Eric's on Thorazine" 8. Milk "Happy is the Eye that Sees" 9. Ampersands "Postcards" 10. Sparkalepsy "Friendly Fire" 11. Cockpit "P. J. Party" 12. Bugskull "All Members Please Rise" 13. Seeds "Evil Hoo Poo" 14. Gaunt "Good Bad Happy Seed" 15. The Smiles "Lions on the Prowl" 16. King Loser "Dick Dale" 17. Neutral Milk Hotel "Everything Is" 18. Fat Day "Pawn Shop" 19. Victims "TV Addicts" 20. Hammerhead "Anvil...
...late August, and your Harvard Summer Experience is almost complete You've seen the Square, shopped HMV Records and the Body Shop and done your time in the hallowed halls of higher learning. You've nursed cups of exotic coffee in the beatnik cafes which hide on dimly-lit side streets. You've danced at the clubs around Kenmore Square and you've dined in the North...