How To Use Beatnik In A Sentence

  • It has become rather hilarious to read about the smelly Beatniks who would not bathe, who stayed up all night at cafes reading poetry and listening to jazz, smoking reefer and bed hopping.
  • I myself have a long history of being boondoggled by pop culture: I applied to NYU because I thought it'd be just like Greenwich Village in the 1950s, all beatniks in berets, poetic and artistic and sipping coffee over a dog-eared Village Voice. Jessica Wakeman: Eulogy for Dead Trees
  • A child of the beatnik generation, Ruscha's artistic epiphany came appropriately, on that quintessential US icon Route 66, which, as the song has it, runs from Oklahoma City, his home town, all the way to his adopted Los Angeles.
  • We had a beatnik poet who wore salami patches on his tweed sport coat.
  • My first experiences using a camera were in 1962 when I fooled around with a Brownie on subjects like my friends dressed up as beatniks and, later, the World's Fair in New York.
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  • In an article entitled "A New Haven for Beatniks," San Francisco journalist Michael Fallon wrote about the Blue Unicorn coffeehouse, using the term hippie to refer to the new generation of beatniks who had moved from North Beach into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco. Archive 2007-10-01
  • The public Mr. Waits is a bona fide character, a stomping, yowling beatnik who reflects the eccentric, downtrodden characters he sings about. The Storyteller's Secret
  • Corman introduced beatniks, hippies, and druggies as suitable cases for cinematic treatment, and consciously challenged Hollywood's reigning myth of a classless society.
  • Robin and Clive had been living a beatnik life in Edinburgh well before acid came along.
  • He introduced beatniks, hippies, and druggies as suitable cases for cinematic treatment, and consciously challenged Hollywood's reigning myth of a classless society.
  • I went to Oxford in 1961 with my beatnik uniform, sandals and black sweater.
  • The beatnik artists from the Hill scene return.
  • Illya was a white-blond pre-bald beatnik in black everything plus turtleneck who brought to mind one of those theatre of the absurd clowns we now associate with mimes and Frenchmen in general.
  • Her long black hair and comfortable clothes are the unruffled badge of the artist and beatnik, be she fifteen or fifty.
  • Although he never embraced the word beatnik, he never failed to identify himself and his friends as members of the Beat Generation. The Typewriter Is Holy
  • Even the preverbal crowd is charmed by Gurney's hipster beatnik monkeys as they drum their way through this board book.
  • From these places emerged the "beatniks", typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours.
  • The platinum-blonde chameleon - who morphed from a slouchy beatnik to a feminine sophisticate in a shimmering top and strappy heels during the course of an evening - rounded out her single-encore set with a series of piano ballads and acoustic numbers.
  • I went to Oxford in 1961 with my beatnik uniform, sandals and black sweater.
  • The catalogue (www.boden.co.uk) has some loud party shirts or more modest floral needlecord and chambray versions for a beatnik 1960s look.
  • The aging beatnik from the psychedelic van, with his smelly tracking dog. Archive 2007-03-01
  • Tied around his neck was a solid black scarf that hinted at a beatnik spirit lurking beneath the formality.
  • Communism turned beatnik in smoky '60s dives like Bicycle Bob Silverman's old café, the Seven Steps Bookshop, where a young Bob Dylan would eventually play.
  • The original mods were more interested in watching French art movies than decking rockers, and they shared a sensibility, if not a dress sense, with the beatniks who hung around the same Soho coffee shops.
  • The first wave of post-war rebels, beatniks were arty, defiant and left-field.
  • The Boden catalogue (www.boden.co.uk) has some loud party shirts or more modest floral needlecord and chambray versions for a beatnik 1960s look.
  • But as these long-haired beatniks graduated from Düsseldorf Conservatory, they became frustrated with both classical formalism and avant-garde jazz.
  • I passed a couple of colorful beatniks playing on a warm wooden kettledrum and a beat-up guitar. Steven Denlinger: Bartering My Future
  • From these places emerged the "beatniks", typically dressed in shabby clothes, sporting a beard and wearing sunglasses at all hours.
  • He was a beatnik and hippie, and was once the manager for the rock group ‘Quicksilver Messenger Service.’
  • She's one of the original beatniks, a personal correspondent with Ezra Pound - her list of accomplishments just goes on and on.
  • Hull, once a hideout for beatniks and intellectuals, is now a living catwalk for the super cool and the terminally trendy.
  • The episodes with beatniks and coffee houses are striking: while Mason epitomizes cool, he disdains nihilism.
  • Her long black hair and comfortable clothes are the unruffled badge of the artist and beatnik, be she fifteen or fifty.
  • Even when describing his initiation as a bebop-loving 20-something into the beatnik scene, Pekar manages to make working in a New York East Village coffee shop in the late 1950s sound mundane.
  • She is said to have inspired the beatnik-turned-reluctant-model character played by Audrey Hepburn in legendary fashion film Funny Face (1957). Lesley M. M. Blume: ICONS OF STYLE SERIES: Suzy Parker, The World's First Supermodel (PHOTOS)
  • I would like to think this meant the pasta was served by bongo-playing beatnik waiters, but I'm afraid the explanation is much more prosaic: most low-level jobs in New York restaurants are filled by Spanish-speakers, and in Spanish b and v are purely graphic variants for the same phoneme, which is pronounced b at the start of a word. Languagehat.com: LINGUINI BONGOLE.
  • Before there were mods and before flower power or hippies, there were beatniks.
  • We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks.
  • As San Francisco turned psychedelic, he travelled to Haight-Ashbury with the intention of becoming not a hippy, but a be-bop-fuelled beatnik.
  • It was also the introduction of distrust, a sentiment that had only before been embraced by radicals and beatniks, and the realization that all was not well.
  • But one must feel a certain pity for him, trapped in a farce of horrendous dialogue and flatlining humour, peopled by androgynous hippy beatniks who make one glad the sixties are dead.
  • Edison took the stage second, and, calling a bongo player from the crowd, read one of his classic tales of pot and porn in traditional Beatnik fashion. Literary Death Match
  • So it comes as a pleasant surprise that they too like smoking, drinking, fancying unsuitable people and Beatnik poets.
  • Shortly after the coining of the term beatnik in the late fifties, the paths of the Beat Generation and what most of America believed to be beatnik culture began to diverge exponentially. The Typewriter Is Holy
  • It will also be used by AI as proof that they're actually a mover and shaker in the world, instead of a glorified coffee shop where the beatniks can hang out and complain about everything under the sun.
  • Harriman tempted investors with glossy flyers featuring hard-working miners, who in actual fact were local beatniks.
  • They always do things ‘different’ out there - surfers, hippies, beatniks, and Hollywood are always the things people ask about, and they're believed to be the role models for how Californians think.
  • So you see, "gone" in beatnik slang means "really good" as in, "that Charlie Parker is one gone cat". "Dig It! Give Me Two Slices!"
  • In the collective mind of the general public, the word beatnik became synonymous with juvenile delinquent. The Typewriter Is Holy
  • Kerouac was a proper beatnik, an existential alchemist of the highway who turned motel dirt into pay dirt by making something heroic-sounding out of his grubby little blunderings about Nowheresville, USA.
  • In a North Beach bar one day, Caen happened to overhear poet Bob Kaufman playfully invent the word beatnik. The Typewriter Is Holy
  • * Of course, the beatnik is not actually calling Charlie Parker a cat. "Dig It! Give Me Two Slices!"

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