Word: beatnik
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...inspiration for Beatnik Gregory Corso's poem Bomb [Sept. 7] might well have been the oft-chanted Episcopal (Book of Common Prayer) Benedicite, omnia opera Domini...
...stage-mothering of stepfather Harvey Knox. "Football is a game for animals," said Ronnie. "I like to think I'm above that." Dreaming of higher things, Ronnie allowed he might toss off a novel or some poetry, already had some lines at hand that lurched with the proper beatnik beat...
...your Sept. 7 article on beatnik wnting, you refer to "Jack Kerouac's soapless saga, The Subterraneans," as though in lacking soap it therefore lacked an essential ingredient. I have heard of soap operas, but I was not aware that a detergent was an essential part of a saga...
...nation's 18 million teen-agers began heading back to high school and college last week, there was a new look: the neatnik had replaced the beatnik. Out were dungarees, sloppy slacks, baggy sweaters, etc. Reflecting the back-to-school buying surge, department-store sales across the nation rose 20% over a year ago. Said Teen-Age Research Expert Eugene Gilbert: "There is a general upturn in the appearance of both boys and girls from the lower middle class on up." Gimbel's department store pitched its ads to "the neat generation." Chicago-area stores reported that their...
...Angeles' antiseptic Police Facilities Building last week, the squares and the beats gathered for a hearing. In the corridors wandered Beatchick Julie Meredith, strumming her guitar and singing sad songs about love and artistry. Beatnik Lipton came equipped with a sheaf of poetry, which he readily recited...