beatnik

Example Sentences

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He further honed his anti-establishment leanings by mingling with the beatniks at the coffee houses of North Beach in his off hours.

From New York Times

Sixty-two years ago, he landed on the front page for arriving to create the beatnik scene.

From Seattle Times

It was the start of beatnik culture: there were folk singing nights, jazz nights, poetry nights.

From The Guardian

I remember not only the classes with their different bell-jar intensities, but also beatnik scenes beyond the studio.

From New York Times

Tomlin stressed in the aftermath that his focus was on football and that figuring out what served as an appropriate form of protest was for “political beatniks to ponder.”

From Seattle Times