beatnik
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He’s put off by Ginsberg’s aggressiveness, though the aging beatnik softens somewhat when he realizes Hujar isn’t an emissary of the enemy so much as a photographer picking up work where he can get it.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 6, 2025
Finally, there is Georgia McCann, a self-styled Gen Z beatnik and events planner whose special talents include throwing parties for Anna Delvey and not washing her hands after she pees.
From Salon • Aug. 2, 2025
“She was kind of emulating beatnik style or French style.”
From Seattle Times • Sep. 27, 2022
That taste ran through the manic era the early ’60s were, a hinge moment between Cold War and Vietnam, Civil Rights and Black Power, repression and liberation; beatnik and hippie; Ab-Ex and Pop.
From New York Times • Jul. 21, 2022
At each stoplight, his gaze would light on someone — a brooding beatnik, a determined shopper — and he would have to fight down an urge to shout that he saw them.
From "Typical American" by Gish Jen
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American History - Middle School
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Chapter 19, Sections 1–4 and Chapter 20, Sections 1–3
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