Word: beatnikism
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...find before have virtually disappeared-hence the concentration on the few remaining ones, such as civil rights and Viet Nam. Among the young bored by prosperity and consensus government, some observers discern a special group, the "New Puritans," who may be toting a protest placard alongside an anti-everything beatnik, but with an entirely different altitude inside...
...words already ghostwritten Michael Chaplin was suddenly having some second thoughts about the unfilial opus due out next month called I Couldn't Smoke the Grass on My Father's Lawn. Father Charlie had decided long ago that he didn't like the fumes of his beatnik boy either, but even with the family feud Michael was beginning to worry that Grass was a bit thick, asked a London High Court justice to suppress the book because it exploited "the piquancy of a situation where the son of a famous man is shown to be making damaging...
...spent two years on the Avenue before returning seriously to his studies, recalls his hiatus as a fast-moving kaleidoscope of LSD, drinking, faceless girls, and empty days. "The nonstudent life tastes like peanut butter, stale bread and leftover booze," he says. As for sex, "there were a few beatnik chicks that were wailing, but the volume didn't match the myth." At talk sessions, "everybody was very bored and very boring. There was something there, but I couldn't tell what it was. I took a closer look-and found it was nothing...
...drawing card was the Northern Communist Beatnik element. They were supposed to sit in and cause much confusion in the ranks, as they did at Cornell and Columbia. Deans Watson and Monro and University Police Chief Robert Tonis had met earlier to discuss the potential disturbance and were on hand for the big event. The Cambridge Police lurked in the parking lot, as did two men in a plain, unmarked car, whom the CRIMSON decided (2-1 with one abstention) were from...
...aged Japanese urologist, helps Finkelstone to discharge his guilt for what happened at Hiroshima by consenting to sterilize the silly schnook; the urologist's death is only casually connected with the affair, but Finkelstone greedily takes the blame for it. The surrogate son, a Sioux scholarship student turned beatnik, helps Finkelstone to engage in hallucinogenic mushroom-munching; the beatnik's death is only remotely related to the hero's spree, but Finkelstone thirstily accepts responsibility. The novel is grotesque and often unpleasant, but it is also funny and unexpectedly successful as the study of a converse Candide...