Word: beatnik
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...Beatnik Boy Scouts. Though Russell at 90 commands the special brand of affectionate awe that the English reserve for all eccentric aristocrats and antic nonagenarians, his neutral-to-Nikita stand revealed to many what Economist Maynard Keynes once called "Bertie's ludicrously incompatible views" of man's fate. Unilateralism, which has often been defended in Britain as a kind of beatnik Boy Scout movement that helps channel youthful idealism, has also been badly tarnished in recent weeks...
Nearly 500 friends, followers, and just plain curious crammed into the Left Bank studio-gallery-theater of America's pioneer Beatnik Raymond Duncan for his 88th birthday blowout. The bespectacled old expatriate, whose pad is almost a photographic shrine to his late sister, Dancer Isadora Duncan, gave them a weirdly nostalgic show. In a quavering saloon tenor he sang My Old Kentucky Home; then, unshorn silver locks and hand-woven toga flying, he launched into a frantic soft-sandal jig. The Dior-dressed segment of the crowd dug it deep. But the modern beats, obviously distressed that no food...
With this bit of dialogue, Poet Kenneth Koch begins a beatnik playlet, which was produced off Broadway last March, on how the American Revolution was won. Last week, posted in large letters on one wall of Manhattan's Martha Jackson Gallery, the script served to accompany one of the nuttier art exhibitions of the season. Throughout the gallery stand nearly life-size wooden cutouts of Washington and his horse, Washington and the cherry tree, Washington crossing the Delaware...
...with a vocabulary of 3,500 words and 128 different patterns of simple-sentence syntax, the computer can turn out hundreds of poems. Because these creations are as intelligible as some beat poems, the computer's engineers call it A.B.* (for Auto-Beatnik...
...visions of fiis subconscious: "I have stretched ropes from belfry to belfry, garlands from window to window; gold chains from star to star, and I'm dancing." Today, the influence of Rimbaud is visible in the works of such diverse poets as Nobel Prizewinner St. John Perse and Beatnik Allen Ginsberg, in the prose effusions of novelists as different as Henry Miller and William Faulkner...