In his chapter on `` The Loveways Of The Beat Generation '', Lipton spares the reader none of the sordid details.

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In 1886, the American Arithmometer Company was established in St. Louis, Missouri to produce and sell an adding machine invented by William Seward Burroughs ( grandfather of Beat Generation author William S. Burroughs ).

Columbia alumni have made an indelible mark in the field of American poetry and literature, with such people as Jack Kerouac, one of the pioneers of the Beat Generation, and Langston Hughes, a seminal figure in the Harlem Renaissance, having both attended the university.

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The Village again became important to the bohemian scene during the 1950s, when the Beat Generation focused their energies there.

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* Communal readings of The Decline of the West held great influence over the founding members of the Beat Generation.

From the second half of the 1950s, Beat Generation writers like William Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg wrote about and took drugs, including cannabis and Benzedrine, raising awareness and helping to popularise their use.

The launch of Sputnik 1 inspired U. S. writer Herb Caen to coin the term " beatnik " in an article about the Beat Generation in the San Francisco Chronicle on 2 April 1958.

Many writers from and associated with the Beat Generation were influenced greatly by Surrealists.

William S. Burroughs, a core member of the Beat Generation and a very influential postmodern novelist, developed what he called the " cut-up technique " with former surrealist Brion Gysin — in which chance is used to dictate the composition of a text from words cut out of other sources — referring to it as the " Surrealist Lark " and recognizing its debt to the techniques of Tristan Tzara.

He was the grandfather of William S. Burroughs the Beat Generation writer, and great-grandfather of William S. Burroughs, Jr., who was also a writer.

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" The early hippies inherited the countercultural values of the Beat Generation, created their own communities, listened to psychedelic rock, embraced the sexual revolution, and some used drugs such as cannabis, LSD, and magic mushrooms to explore altered states of consciousness.

Composed mostly of white teenagers and young adults between 15 and 25 years old, hippies inherited a tradition of cultural dissent from bohemians and beatniks of the Beat Generation in the late 1950s.

Members included Beat Generation hero Neal Cassady, Ken Babbs, Carolyn Adams ( aka Mountain Girl and Carolyn Garcia ), Stewart Brand, Del Close, Paul Foster, George Walker, Sandy Lehmann-Haupt and others.

The hippies inherited various countercultural views and practices regarding sex and love from the Beat Generation ; " their writings influenced the hippies to open up when it came to sex, and to experiment without guilt or jealousy.

.</ ref > McCleary believes that the hippie counterculture added a significant number of words to the English language by borrowing from the lexicon of the Beat Generation, through the hippies ' shortening of beatnik words and then popularizing their usage.

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Jack Kerouac's Beat Generation novel On the Road, some of which takes place in Denver, contains several references to Colfax.

Beatnik was a media stereotype of the 1950s to mid 1960s that displayed the more superficial aspects of the Beat Generation literary movement of the 1950s and violent film images, along with a cartoonish depiction of the real-life people and the spiritual quest in Jack Kerouac's autobiographical fiction.

Kerouac introduced the phrase " Beat Generation " in 1948, generalizing from his social circle to characterize the underground, anti-conformist youth gathering in New York at that time.

Bronski Beat recruited John Foster as Somerville's replacement ( Foster is credited as " Jon Jon ").

Sciacca is a former political reporter and columnist who is a regular panelist on " Beat the Press " on the WGBH TV show Greater Boston, which is hosted by Emily Rooney.

Charanjit Singh's Synthesizing: Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat ( 1982 ) anticipated the sounds of acid house music, but is not known to have had any influence on the genre prior to its rediscovery in the 21st century.

In 2007, Hip-Hop producer Madlib released Beat Konducta Vol 3 – 4: Beat Konducta in India ; an album which heavily samples and is inspired by the music of India.

Remember, Lee predated Hendrix in the late ‘ 60s rock milieu that had bypassed black pioneers like Chuck Berry and Little Richard ( the Bo Diddley Beat of ' Bummer in the Summer ' is an oblique reminder ).

* In the video game Civilization V: Gods & Kings, there are two Steam achievements: " Nobody expects ..." with the description " As Spain, use an Inquisitor to remove another Religion ", and the more explicit " Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition " whose description is " Beat the game on any difficultly setting as Isabella ".

Beat creation is simplified, and groove templates can be used to duplicate another track's rhythmic feel.

* January 5 – The first album on which The Beatles play, My Bonnie, credited to " Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers " ( recorded last June in Hamburg ), is released by Polydor in the U. K.

Beggar-My-Neighbour ( alternatively Beggar-Thy-Neighbour or Beggar-Your-Neighbour, each a bowdlerization reflecting the substitution of " beggar " for " bugger "), also known by the etymologically unrelated names Jack Daniels, Beat Jack Out of Doors, Beat Your Neighbour Out of Doors, Beat your Neighbour Out of Town, Strip Jack Naked, Picture and Draw the Well Dry, is a simple card game somewhat similar in nature to War, and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian Ratscrew.

It is because I am Beat, that is, I believe in beatitude and that God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten son to it ... Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?

The consequence is, that even though we may know now that these images do not accurately reflect the reality of the Beat movement, we still subconsciously look for them when we look back to the 50s.

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In the opening scenes of Jeffery Deaver's novel Manhattan Is My Beat, a character, under guard in a hotel, is watching the film.

Pearson remarks that the Walk is a form of self-punishment for McVries and that he should have a " Beat Me Hard " sign around his neck.

The term " Third Viennese School " is occasionally used to refer to the composers surrounding the Viennese new music ensemble Klangforum Wien, including its founder Beat Furrer and other late modernists such as Helmut Lachenmann, Olga Neuwirth and Bernhard Lang.

This part of the second great quintet is an ironic footnote for Davis, who was not fond of Dolphy's music ( in a 1964 Down Beat " Blindfold Test ", Miles famously quipped, " The next time I see I'm going to step on his foot.

At the dance Polly ’ s date recognizes Betsy as an accomplished singer and asks her to perform ; Andy is scared that she will embarrass him but she proves to be a fantastic singer and quickly wins over the crowd with “ It Never Rains But it Pours ” and encores with “ Meet the Beat of My Heart .” Betsy and Andy lead the dance in a grand march after Polly leaves in tears.