Good question. I know little about the “Beat Generation”, but I did find this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beatnik
Beatnik was a media stereotype prevalent throughout the 1950s to mid-1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s. Elements of the beatnik trope included inclinations toward violence, drug use, and pseudo-intellectualism, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest of Jack Kerouac’s autobiographical fiction.
Source: Wikipedia
Much more at the link.
Sounds like current Full Professors....
Beatnik’s were mere pop culture posers of 50’s liberal beat generation advant garde cool, pre-cursors to the filthy socialist bum hippies.
Both social curses were encouraged by ample KGB support on college campuses, media and arts.
We’re screwed now that beatnik and hippy social refuse run gov’t, education, media, and arts.
The USSR won just as Kruschev warned.