Word: beatnik
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...reader who wants to spot the comers can plunge into these pages and make his bets. But he will have to pick his way past a host of the noncomers, who can be divided roughly into two types: beatnik flashes-in-the-pad and talented people who, because they prefer assault on convention to communication, will spend their lives out of earshot...
From the Second City is a mirthful revue in which eight saucy Chicagoans mime flicker-lit parodies of silent films, sass headline heroes, and enact an all-too-human comedy about a horn-rimmed girl doing the Talkathon Twist with a beatnik...
...letters on the fact that the great majority of writers live in big cities, thus have "only superficial knowledge of quickly flowing and changing reality." In their "impossibly narrow trousers and absurdly broad-shouldered jackets," he scoffed, they are interested only in showing off to "the hysterical squeals of beatnik chicks."† He added that such poets would, in any case, be useless on the farm since they would soon be "nostalgic for warm toilets and the other city blessings...
...Peppermint Lounge and its Twist might well have remained just another flesh spa for the midtown beatnik crowd had it not been for the sharp eye of New York Journal-American Society Editor "Cholly Knickerbocker" (Igor Cassini), who somehow spotted a few members of the smart set slumming there one night. No sooner did Cholly break the news in his gossip column than the Peppermint Lounge became an instant fad. The Duke and Duchess of Bedford showed up. So did Porfirio and Odile Rubirosa, and Bill Zeckendorf Jr. and Judy Garland and the Bruno Pagliais (Merle Oberon), and Billy Rose...
...chairman thinks television is unfit for human consumption, does he? A cultural slag heap? They'll show him. Result: the cultured, well-heeled flatfoot. Robert Taylor's retooled Detectives (NBC) now wear button-down collars, glen plaid suits, and shoot professorially from the mouth. "A beatnik," said one Taylor gumshoe last week, "is a vagrant with intellectual pretensions.'' ABC's The New Breed celebrates Lt. Price Adams (Leslie Nielsen) and the new, soft-spoken young cops of the Los Angeles Police Department, college men and nearly all scientists, who speak scornfully of the old-style...