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Beatnik - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Beat Generation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Beat Generation is a term used to describe a group of American writers who came to prominence in the 1950s, and the cultural phenomena that they wrote about and inspired (later sometimes called ...
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The Beat Generation, revolution's precursor ... The Beatnik movement took place around seven years before the Hippies, Viet Nam protests, and Watts riots. It was literary, not political. Most of us now remember only the crazy '60s. But the Beatniks started a far subtler upheaval with a trick of etymology.
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Nikita Krushchev becomes Soviet Party Secretary; Congress authorizes U.S. president to use force to defend Formosa; Richard J. Daley elected mayor of Chicago; Martin Luther King Jr. leads Civil Rights Movement; ... Television: Top Quiz Shows exposed as pretense; "The Many Loves of Dobey Gillis" includes Beatnik Maynard G.
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"Kerouac's version of Buddha is a dimestore incense burner, glowing and glowering sinisterly in the dark corner of a Beatnik pad and just thrilling the wits out of bad little girls."; -Kenneth Rexroth; "I miss you so much your absence causes me, at times, accute pain.
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In 1958, a few months after Russia launched their 'sputnik' satellite, San Francisco Chronicle columnist Herb Caen coined the word 'beatnik'. He wrote condescendingly that "Look Magazine hosted a party for 50 Beatniks...
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