Sample Sentences forbeatnik (auto-selected)
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The stockings gave her a beatnik look, she hoped.† (source)
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In the beatnik canon it was America's sickness that had produced the bomb.† (source)
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Turner was there, along with a young white man, a lanky sort with a beatnik slouch and a greasy spray of blond hair.† (source)
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I show her photos of the commune I had joined briefly in Copenhagen, living alongside ripped-T-shirt-and-beanie-hat-wearing Danish beatniks who had built a self-governing community on a former military base.† (source)
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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.† (source)
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Clichés and stereotypes such as "beatnik" or "hippie" have been invented for the antitechnologists, the antisystem people, and will continue to be.† (source)
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They called it Beatnik Bell.† (source)
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She's a lady down the block who used to hang out in Greenwich Village with the beatniks.† (source)
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Oh, we talked beatnik jive and dug cool sounds in stereo and disagreed with Playboy's poll of jazz musicians just as earnestly as if it mattered.† (source)
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The girls at university, in their cashmere and pearls, make jokes about arty beatniks and talk to me less.† (source)
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Be Buddhist or a beatnik?† (source)
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And long-toothed beatniks in their cups hone for the rituals of right and wrong their bourgeois fathers taught.† (source)
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There was a beatnik element in the audience, several postbeats in old checked lumberjackets vintage 1950, men with a kind of distance in their gazes but still alert to signs of marvels astir in the universe, and a woman in a patchwork shirt with a baby in a pouch, probably the first and last infant at one of Lenny's shows but this was San Francisco in the week that was.† (source)
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The so-called beatniks were the first to use weird as a term of approbation.† (source)
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We read Salinger and Kerouac and used language that shocked our parents and dressed (sometimes) in beatnik fashion.† (source)
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A return to natural fabrics—made from the same materials with which our ancient ancestors wove their loincloths—in the seventies brought fashion full circle, when hippies revealed other uses for hemp than those popularized by the beatniks of the decade before...although the most popular use for it is still very much in style on college campuses.† (source)
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