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
How could this crazy beatnik character be Disney?
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2024
A musician before he’d become an actor, Mr. Rado began writing songs with Mr. Ragni, which they sometimes sang in what were then beatnik coffee houses in Greenwich Village.
From New York Times ● Jun. 22, 2022
There was a kind of beatnik quality to the Durenmatt’s suit.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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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