Word: beatnik
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This group is closely related to the long haired denizens of "The Bick," but the two are not identical and should not be parleyed into the stock image of a "dope-addicted beatnik." Those who use marijuana include artists and writers, pseudo-artists and pseudo-writers, and frankly non-creative people. Both students and non-students belong. Outsiders can safely place many of these people in the romantic, if nebulous, image of "the Cambridge Underground...
...identifies with small fur-bearing animals, has just done an eight-month stretch in jail for blowing up two fur shops with homemade bombs. Daughter is going to have an illegitimate child by an accountant who apparently lacks the caution proper to his vocation. Son is a bearded off-beatnik novelist who has brought home to London a monolingual Greek gamine first encountered in a Sardinian hay stack. Like son, like father. During Mama's absence, Papa (Cyril Ritchard) has had his own affair with a divorcee. "The moment my back is turned," says Mama reproachfully. "Your back wasn...
...Thus it is both a pleasant and surprising experience to read Jack Kerouac's Visions of Gerard, which asserts the faith that a child has a better chance of being good than someone older who is already visited by corruption. Perhaps only someone known as a high-bellowing beatnik prose man, and thus a bit of a child himself, could have pulled off the unlikely feat of extorting tears for a dead child. The child is Gerard, doomed to sanctity in a New England tribe of boozing, brawling Canucks. He dies at nine, a neighborhood wonder, full of love...
...climax of this primitive business is a custard-pie war in a beatnik beer and poetry parlor. Pie-facing, like pratfalling, seems to be a lost art nowadays, and Avalon desecrates the memory of Deadpan Harry Langdon: he stands there and actually squinches up his eyes before the strawberry cream splatters all over his pretty face. Nonetheless, Annette goes ape for Frankie, crooning "I was such a fool/ To treat him so crool...
...Robert B. Payne reports, in the New England Journal of Medicine, a sick story about nutmeg. Two students at the University of North Carolina heard from a beatnik friend that it would give them a jag like a combination of the effects of alcohol and LSD or mescaline. The two lads each took two tablespoonfuls, the powder equivalent of two grated nutmegs, in a glass of milk. Within five hours they had a leaden feeling in their feet and legs, and an airy, dreamlike sensation in their heads. Their hearts were beating in double time. They were...