Word: beatnik
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Many whites are just curious about the "commie-Jew-beatnik-nigger-lovers" that have invaded their town. Most of the freedom workers seem polite and friendly and this puzzles many whites. A white female cashier in a Holly Springs five and ten stopped serving customers in order to get a better look at the group of young men escorting Negroes to the court house; then she commented to a friend, "I didn't know communists were so handsome...
James Forstner was a well-regarded juvenile probation officer in San Francisco. He was, that is, until last fall when he began sporting a beard. Shave it off, he was ordered. Forstner's charges would get a bad "impression of beatnikism," said the boss. When he refused, Forstner was fired. When the civil service commission rejected his appeal, he went to state superior court. "Maybe every beatnik wears a beard," argued his hairsplitting lawyer, "but not every person who wears a beard is a beatnik...
...sweetness and chastity, however. The maid (Bina Breitner) is having a not-so-discreet fling with a beatnik named Claude (Larry Gonick), and even Mother's cardinal virtues melt quickly into carnal pleasures in his agreeable arms...
...editors are "looking for writers with a voice, with consistency of statement," Mellen claimed. They are anxious to publish experimental work, but not "strange, disconnected, beatnik babblings...
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Alan Arkin in a drama called "The Beatnik and the Politicians...