Word: beatnik
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...parents were separated when he was born in 1902, and he grew up in Karlsruhe, Germany, with his mother and stepfather, a Jewish pediatrician. He had little interest in school and at 18 began several years of wandering about in the Black Forest and northern Italy as "a transitional beatnik." He drew constantly and studied painting. But in 1927 a friend who had already joined Freud's circle invited Erikson to Vienna to help him run a school he was starting for the children of Freud's patients and students...
...unblack" description of the average American was quoted in TIME, and its reception encouraged him to co-author The Real Majority. We found ecdysiast, first minted by H.L. Mencken, a delightful way of describing Gypsy Rose Lee, and helped make it a part of the language. The title beatnik, originally bestowed on Bohemian writers in San Francisco, became a generic term in the pages of TIME. McCarthyism and Castroism first came into general use in the magazine, as did Kremlinologist, Sinologist and urbanologist...
...blue's about the best I've seen." Cooper explained. Spider nodded solemnly. Cooper talked like a beatnik as far as Spider could tell, but he tried to overlook it and passed him a panel from a case of Coke so that Cooper might autograph it. "Alan Cooper," he wrote. It wasn't as much a thrill for Spider as shaking Don Everly's hand at the Tea Party, but it was, nevertheless, exciting...
Team Member Don Rothberg, 34, who once ran a beatnik restaurant in Berkeley, got a guarded tip from a high military source: "If you dig far enough back into the history of the M16, you might find something interesting." But it took him three weeks of rummaging through Congressional-committee hearings and long interviews with reluctant manufacturers and defense officials to produce his story on how mass production of the lightweight M-16 rifle, sorely needed in Viet Nam, had been delayed by Pentagon indecision for seven years. When the Army finally placed its orders, he discovered, it was paying...
...fools. She painted, read poetry, and listened to Odetta and Leadbelly records. "Everybody else was going to drive-ins and drinking Cokes and talking about going across the tracks to go nigger knocking." At 18, she escaped to Los Angeles with her parents' dubious blessing and became a beatnik. Not a hippie. Janis explains the difference carefully. Hippies believe the world could be a better place. "Beatniks believe things aren't going to get better and say the hell with it, stay stoned and have a good time...