Word: beatnikism
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...selected passages might provide more insight into "Yovy" and his relationship to me during the 1970 football season: Dartmouth Program Oct. 24, 1970 "It didn't seem inappropriate at his first press conference at a Boston hotel. Down at the end of a table was a long-hair, a beatnik with bushy hair and thick glasses--a stereotype. Yovicsin merely glanced...
Last week the once furry-faced arch-beatnik appeared before a flock of followers in Berkeley without a beard-and without his old vigor. Denying that he had ever said he would not shave until the Viet Nam War was over, Ginsberg insisted that "it has nothing to do with anything conceptual." Speaking sedately, as befits an elder statesman, even of the counterculture, Poet Ginsberg announced that he was making some recordings: William Blake in an album of mantra chants. "I don't suppose anyone will make any money on it," Ginsberg said resignedly...
...years earlier, the beatnik takeover of the Bay City's North Beach area had produced some fine poets, including Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso, and Novelist Jack Kerouac. From the Haight, though, little emerged to ennoble the spirit-except, perhaps, the Haight-Ashbury Free Medical Clinic, which is the subject of this book...
CAPTAIN Beefheart, Dan Van Vliet, twelve-year-old-genius-gone-wrong, had a scholarship to go to Europe to study sculpture. But his parents were worried he'd become a beatnik, so they moved next door to these nice folks in a nice residential town. The Zappas had a boy a little older than Don and they became good friends, listening to rock 'n' roll and driving around weekends together picking up peanutbutter...
...Communists jumped on my movement and turned it into a Beat insurrection. They wanted a youth movement to exploit." He had recently sold an article to a Sunday newspaper magazine-supplement titled "After Me the Deluge." A month before he died he told an interviewer. "I'm not a beatnik, I'm a Catholic." He then pointed out a portrait of Pope Paul: "You know who painted that...