Word: bleatnik
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...confessed bleatnik [Aug. 11], I was quite amused at Professor Klassen's terming the transistor radio an "appeal to bodily comfort which is related to the desire to go back to the womb, the mother and the breast." Surely he jests...
...over the U.S., a new order of restless American stalks city and countryside carrying tiny transistors. He can't stand silence. With his gadget turned up full-blast, the bleatnik goes about his pursuits with ear and mind cocked to sportscasts, disk-jockeywockey and what passes for pop music. He plods along, swinging his radio like an attaché case, or stuffs it into his shirt pocket, while the unrelenting blabber transists him like exhaust fumes. If he is using an earpiece receiver, identification may be more difficult, but there are certain telltale signs, as there are of hopheads...
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