Word: beatnikism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite such straight reticence, Jones, who "tried the beatnik thing" in his Michigan college days in the '50s, was no stranger to hippiedom. He wrote TIME'S Man of the Year cover story on the younger generation. Before starting out on this one, he drafted a long query to our correspondents, and when a Los Angeles hippie got a look at it, he said: "Man, that cat knows what he is talking about." We think he does...
...term derives from the pre-World War II jitterbug adjective "hep": to be "with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard...
Several incidents marred the event. A mile from the march's origin, when some spectators hoisted an antiwar sign, several dozen paraders waded into them. Young toughs poured hot tar over a long-haired bystander for no other reason than his beatnik look, then covered him with feathers; he suffered minor burns. Otherwise the combativeness was limited mostly to vigorous flag-waving and the legends blazoned on hand-lettered signs. There were, of course, hyper-hawks galore, toting signs reading "Bomb Haiphong" and "Drop peaceniks on Hanoi." One banner proclaimed: "Ho Chi Minh is a fink-give...
Sung to the tune of Chuck Berry's "School Days," "Dirty Old Man" is a riotous parody, a reductio ad absurdum of the other side's stereotype of the Fug-like hippie, the bearded beatnik with "thrill pills for all you chickies, funny cigarettes for you boys...
Picture of Travail. The interview began in front of the Guggenheim museum (where a beatnik type "swept off his rakish Astrakhan hat and stood transfixed"), then moved on to Schrafft's (where John Jr. had a butterscotch sundae), and ended up at a friend's Fifth Avenue apartment. Conniff and Considine are unabashed admirers of "the young woman who bears such assorted burdens as Gallup's pronouncement that she is the most admired person of her sex in the world ... a woman who has been on the best-dressed lists most of her adult life ... the smile...