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To: Paladin2

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.


36 posted on 11/28/2015 4:42:58 PM PST by trisham (Zen is not easy. It takes effort to attain nothingness. And then what do you have? Bupkis.)
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To: trisham

Sounds like current Full Professors....


37 posted on 11/28/2015 4:44:36 PM PST by Paladin2 (my non-desktop devices are no longer allowed to try to fix speling and punctuation, nor my gran-mah.)
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To: trisham

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.


76 posted on 11/28/2015 7:02:31 PM PST by MarchonDC09122009 (When is our next march on DC? When have we had enough?)
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