Word: beatnik
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...record and interview." The evidence in court was testimony about the interview, which for Holmes lasted an hour, although at least one white student at Georgia got through this ritual by a simple phone conversation. Holmes was asked if he had ever visited a house of prostitution, or "a beatnik parlor or teahouse." No, said he, but officials still called him "evasive." They also said he lied in saying that he had never been "arrested." Their reason: Holmes once paid a $20 speeding fine, had his license suspended...
...fully agree with the kids that our lax school system should be stiffened. While in a San Diego high school, I got to select my own courses-all art. Now, five years later, I'm called a beatnik-what I really am is a "stupnik" and am straining in night school to catch up on fundamentals...
...Fall Down, by James Leo Herlihy. A fresh, Salingering tale of a hooky-playing 14-year-old and his off beatnik parents, whose foundering world finds focus in another brother as wild as his name: Berry-berry...
...sounds of such current favorites as Sonny Rollins, Art Blakey and Miles Davis. They have even picked up the lingo, and added soy sauce. Though cool (pronounced "koo-roo") and beat ("beato") survived the Pacific crossing almost intact, the U.S. term funky (meaning earthy) is disparaging Japanese for beatnik. Shinu (literally: I die) means being overwhelmed, and if the sounds are too far out, they are ikareteru (meaning out of order...
...Godot, but the heroin fix; and a neat double dose of disenchantment-Samuel Beckett's Krapp's Last Tape, in which a defeated, Proust-like writer plays back his own past, on the same bill with Edward Albee's Zoo Story, which stars a lonely beatnik trying to communicate with an awful square. Up in Central Park: The Taming of the Shrew...