Word: beatnikism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crucial difference in these agencies, however, lies not in the social and economic composition of their forces, but rather in their leadership. In both cities, the sheriffs and the troopers belong to the cowboy school, which holds that the only way to deal with the Commie beatnik agitators is to run roughshod over them. The police chiefs in the two towns, on the other hand, while not always just, use restraint in their defenses of an unjust order...
Antics & Reaction. In the last few years, Dr. Cohen and other reputable researchers have been disturbed by what he calls the "beatnik microculture" and its abuses of LSD and other hallucinogens. The danger, he says, is that public reaction against oddball antics may set back serious research for many years...
Born in 1962, with an inspirational assist from visiting U.S. Beatnik Allen Ginsberg, Calcutta's Hungry Generation is a growing band of young Bengalis with tigers in their tanks. Somewhat unoriginally they insist that only in immediate physical pleasure do they find any meaning in life, and they blame modern society for their emptiness. On cheaply printed paper, they pour forth a torrent of starkly explicit erotic writings, most of them based on their own exploits ("In the Taj Mahal with My Sister") or on dreams. "My theme is me," says Hungry Poet Shaileshwar Ghose, 26, a schoolteacher...
...takes place on a suspension bridge, and the plot is a shoestring. A beatnik's beatnik, Harry Berlin (Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that...
Actress Bancroft, the Bronxish beatnik of Broadway's Two For the Seesaw and the iron-willed mentor of The Miracle Worker, stretches her talents to astonishing breadth as Mrs. Jake Armitage, a British matron who believes that incessant procreation is what's right with the world, not what's wrong with it. This elemental drive brings her a swarm of children and several hard-pressed husbands, the last of whom (Peter Finch) jolts her out of bovine contentment by becoming a rich and famous screen writer...