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The Beat Generation (1959) associated the movement with crime and violence, as did The Beatniks (1960). [citation needed] An episode of The Addams Family titled "The Addams Family Meets a Beatnik," broadcast January 1, 1965, features a young biker/beatnik who injures himself in an accident, and ends up staying with the Addams family.
In 1959, Fred McDarrah started a "Rent-a-Beatnik" service in New York, taking out ads in The Village Voice and sending Ted Joans and friends out on calls to read poetry. [59] "Beatniks" appeared in many cartoons, movies, and TV shows of the time, perhaps the most famous being the character Maynard G. Krebs in The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis ...
Emily Cox and Henry Rathvon are a married, retired American puzzle-writing team.They wrote the "Atlantic Puzzler", a monthly cryptic crossword in The Atlantic magazine, from September 1977 to October 2009, [1] [2] and wrote cryptic crosswords every four weeks for The Wall Street Journal from 2010 to 2023.
Corso fell out with the publisher of Gasoline, Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Bookstore, who objected to "Bomb," a position Ferlinghetti later rued and for which he apologized. Corso's work found a strong reception at New Directions Publishing , founded by James Laughlin , who had heard of Corso through Harvard connections.
Crossword-like puzzles, for example Double Diamond Puzzles, appeared in the magazine St. Nicholas, published since 1873. [32] Another crossword puzzle appeared on September 14, 1890, in the Italian magazine Il Secolo Illustrato della Domenica. It was designed by Giuseppe Airoldi and titled "Per passare il tempo" ("To pass the time"). Airoldi's ...
The Tangerinn is a bar in Tangier, Morocco, a place of nostalgia for fans of beat generation or beatnik poets. The bar is adjoined to the Hotel El Muniria where author William S. Burroughs wrote his famous novel Naked Lunch in room #9. Pictures of beat generation poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac hang on the walls. [1] [2
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Born in Greenfield, Massachusetts, and raised in Chicago, Herbert Huncke was a street hustler, high school dropout, and drug user.He left Chicago as a teenager after his parents divorced and began living as a hobo, jumping trains throughout the United States and bonding with other vagrants through shared destitution and common experience.