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he could feel more than hear the staccato beat of hoofs that fanned out across the prairie to the north.

She crouched aside as bullets beat at the portal, chewing into the planks.

`` Somebody beat us to it ''!!

Maybe I would beat old Herry to Siberia after all.

Maybe to beat up on his squaw ''.

`` Your superiors will certainly beat you for your desertion, besides the dishonor of it.

He saw the most action, beat up more badmen with his bare fists, broke up the most gangs and sent more murderers to the gallows than any other U.S. marshal who lived before or after him.

His heart beat faster.

You did this you like to hurt to beat people I want to go home ''.

`` Bastards '', he would say, `` all I did was put a beat to that Vivaldi stuff, and the first chair clobbered me ''!!

Till one day the last freight had been jumped, the last pint had been killed, the last beat had been rapped.

But for the beat generation all is sex.

Jazz is sex, marijuana is a stimulus to sex, the beat tempo is adjusted to the orgiastic release of the sexual impulse.

Lawrence Lipton, in The Holy Barbarians, stresses that for the beat generation sex is more than a source of pleasure ; ;

As Lipton, the prophet of the beat generation, declares: `` In the sexual act, the beat are filled with mana, the divine power.

Thus, paradoxically, the beat writers resort to `` religious '' metaphors: they are in search of mana, the spiritual, the numinous, but not anything connected with formal religion.

The style of life chosen by the beat generation, the rhythm and ritual they have adopted as uniquely their own, is designed to enhance the value of the sexual experience.

Righteous in their denunciation of all that makes for death, the beat prophets bid all men become cool cats ; ;

That is why the members of the beat generation proudly assume the title of the holy barbarians ; ;

One beat poet composes a poem, `` Lines On A Tijuana John '', which contains a few happy hints for survival.

Others who are attracted to this Mecca of the beat generation are homosexuals, heroin addicts, and smalltime hoodlums.

How is the beat poet to achieve unity of form when he is at the same time engaged in a systematic derangement of senses.

If love reflects the nature of man, as Ortega Y Gasset believes, if the person in love betrays decisively what he is by his behavior in love, then the writers of the beat generation are creating a new literary genre.

To the extent that our sampling of the orientations of American college students in the years 1950 and 1952 may be representative of our culture -- and still valid in 1959 -- we are disposed to question the summary characterization of the current generation as silent, beat, apathetic, or as a mass of other-directed conformists who are guided solely by social radar without benefit of inner gyroscopes.