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beatniks
Members of the “beat” movement in the United States in the 1950s. Beatniks frequently rejected middle-class American values, customs, and tastes in favor of radical politics and exotic jazz, art, and literature. The movement was often classified as bohemian. The poet Allen Ginsberg and the novelist Jack Kerouac are examples of beatnik authors.
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In America, the term “counterculture” is so associated with hippies, beatniks, bohemians and the like, it might seem odd to think of self-described conservatives as counterculture types.
I also omitted "beatniks" from his list of groups he believed were seeking to destroy the country.
On its website, the venue recalled the event as one “where beatniks met the emerging hippie culture.”
A small minority of beatniks, radicals, and filthy speech advocates have brought shame on a great university.
He further honed his anti-establishment leanings by mingling with the beatniks at the coffee houses of North Beach in his off hours.
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