beatnik

How To Use beatnik In A Sentence

• 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.
• 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.