Word: beatnik
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Even those faithful were disappointed, since the mustachioed commentator on beatniks and beatnik poetry decided to drive to Boston and never did appear at the station...
...group that waited in vain for Rexroth was a strange combination of disgruntled newsmen, baggage porters, little boys waiting for their mothers, and a few scattered students who vaguely fulfilled the epithet of beatnik...
...individual stars are David Rawle as the beatnik son of the hoods' boss and Brian Doyle as a female soc rel researcher doing her master's on deviant behavior (trying to get the "scoop on the loop," as Rawle says). In the second act these two put on a marvelous song and dance called the "Planned Obsolescence Mambo." Rawle also has two excellent duets with John TenBrook, as Tuesday Kowalczyk (a muscular lady cop). Doyle has a way of exclaiming "That's fascinating!" that can bring almost any scene to a riotous close...
Pink Centaur. Some coffeehouses are far out in a sense no beatnik could ever have imagined. The tony Florian on Boston's Newbury Street serves ten different kinds of coffee, caters to little old ladies nibbling anchovy canapes. Many establishments have specific dedications that would defy the nihilist beatnik code: New Orleans' House of the Fencing Masters, a coffeehouse gallery that displays the serious work of local artists, and the folk-song parlors, such as the Laughing Buddha in St. Louis and Club 47 in Cambridge, Mass., where the Harvard boys listen reverently to the excellent voice...
...national impact of John F. Kennedy's usual hatlessness, the hat industry set out to rescue the nation's impressionable young men (and itself) from the perils of bareheadedness. In an eye-catching, full-page ad in the New York Times appeared a huge portrait of a beatnik so snaggy-and hatless-that no rising young man could afford to look anything like...