Word: beatnik
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...literature, in which Japanese writers are still covertly psychoanalyzing the loss of World War II. Mizoguchi is both poor and common, and Temple champions a kind of cultural revolt of the masses, with its rejection of all that is feudal and aristocratic. There is a lot of Zen beatnik in Mishima's hero, and at his worst he is a glorification of the East-West culture bum who has neither the courage nor the talent to remake the world he hates...
...Lucerne Milk (U.S.) is peddled by "Satellite McCool," a beatnik, bop-talking pianist, busy playing far-out music. Asked for his musical preference, Satellite says he likes his own stuff. "I mean classical, like Beethoven. Where is it??" Asked for the essence of his philosophy, he answers dreamily: "Where am I??" Then he pulls a container of Lucerne Milk out of the piano...
Technically, a beatnik spouting poetry
...turned up safe in Cuban swampland after a crash landing in a storm. Just to complicate matters, the rescue plane that picked up Raul to return him to Havana in triumph landed with another crash (jammed landing gear) near the capital. Looking more than ever like a beardless revolutionary beatnik, Raul was greeted by his staunch revolutionist wife Vilma...
...Kicks. There are an estimated 500 U.S. painters, sculptors and writers in Italy today. Living on shoestring savings and slim scholarships (average annual grant: $2,500 to $3,000). most are trying to stretch their pennies into more time for their art. They have nothing but scorn for their beatnik contemporaries of San Francisco, and they cold-shouldered shaggy, beatnik Poet Gregory Corso. who stormed into Rome recently bawling...