drug on the market, a
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drug on the market, a an unsaleable or valueless commodity. Drug in the sense of ‘a commodity for which there is no demand’ is recorded from the mid 17th century, but its history does not make it unequivocally clear that it is the same word as the medicinal substance. The phrase is recorded from the mid 19th century (earlier also as
a drug in the market).
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The Beat Generation is Now About Everything.(Review)
Magazine article from: College Literature; 1/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; ...1995. The Birth of the Beat Generation. Visionaries, Rebels...Phillips, ed. 1995. Beat Culture and the New...Mad to be Saved. The Beats, the '50's, and...The Birth of the Beat Generation juxtaposes arresting...quips, booklists, and beat argot. "The family...arijuana jam which ...
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Literature of the Beat Generation.
Magazine article from: Bookmarks; 5/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...but also brought the Beat Generation to the forefront of public attention. The Beat writers emerged in the...Kerouac described the Beats as a "generation of...Ginsberg characterized the Beats as a group searching...Often collaborative, the Beat writers' literary works...
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The Beat Generation and the Birth of Counter-Culture
Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday; 5/22/1994; 700+ words
; ...HANSEN, Host: Every generation has its nicknames. In...to be known as `The Beats.' Jack Kerouac, Allen...the final day of the Beat Generation, Legacy and...came to characterize beat poetry. GREGORY CORSO...spooky one. VITALE: The beat writers celebrated their...and Eisenhower, the ...
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Beat Generation Photos on Display in Pa.
News Wire article from: AP Online; 10/6/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...photographs, "Allen Ginsberg: Beat Generation Photographer," Wednesday...photograph taken by fellow Beat writer Allen Ginsberg. Kerouac...photographed the best minds of the Beat Generation in between the bursts...captions, "Allen Ginsberg: Beat Generation ...
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Poet Allen Ginsburg Reflects on `The Beat Generation'
Transcript from: NPR All Things Considered; 1/31/1993; 700+ words
; ...collection of spoken words CDs, The Beat Generation. Poet Allen Ginsburg was part of...he actually just takes the word `beat' and he finds the music in that...music. JACK KEROURAC: [in The Beat Generation] Now it's jazz. The...
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For the Beat Generation, a new generation
Newspaper article from: The Boston Globe; 10/12/1997; ; 628 words
; ...shining lights of the Beat Generation look out at the new generation...generation of kids to the Beat Generation. Whether...collecting photos of the Beats. Some were in the Whitney...few African-American Beats), Patti Smith, and...considered part of the Beat ...
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Girls Who Wore Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2004; ; 700+ words
; ...Black: Women Writing the Beat Generation. Ed. by. RONNA C. JOHNSON...and autobiography in so much Beat writing by women. The essays...supposedly ancillary role played by Beat women. As a connecting theme...Kerouac's representation of the Beat as a man 'whose girls say...profile of neglected ...
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The Beat Generation: Critical Essays.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: World Literature Today; 10/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; The Beat Generation: Critical Essays. Kostas...well as essays on the Chicano Beat writer Oscar Zeta Acosta and the neglected Beat novelist William Kotzwinkle...two essays that consider the Beat connection with writers in...educators interested in the Beats "is to develop new critical...
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John Clellon Holmes, 62, `Beat Generation' author
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times; 4/2/1988; 623 words
; ...Holmes, who coined the term "beat" to describe the literary and social rebels of the generation that followed World War II...until a few months ago. The Beat Generation and its lifestyle...1952. He came up with "beat" to describe the negative...
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Monterey Calif., Shop, Museum Passes on Legacy of Beat Generation Writers.
Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News; 5/3/2003; 700+ words
; ...bookshop in Monterey with a special Beat Generation section, tourists used to come in...Monterey. And this one allows the Beat literature aficionados to be full-time Kerouac counselors. The Beat Museum opens this week in a storefront...
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Beat Generation
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History
BEAT GENERATION BEAT GENERATION. The beats emerged in and around Columbia University in New York City in the 1940s. Picking up the word "beat" from their friend Herbert Huncke, the original beat writers...
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beat generation
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
beat generation term applied to certain American...anarchic, members of the beat generation rejected traditional...social and artistic forms. The beats sought immediate expression...Burroughs . During the 1960s "beat" ideas and attitudes were...
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Beat and Beat Generation
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
Beat and Beat Generation. ‘Beat’ was a term first...social alienation. ‘Beat’ was quickly picked...suggesting the pulse and ‘beat’ of music. The...and W. Burroughs , the Beats developed an aesthetic based...
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Generation
Dictionary entry from: New Dictionary of the History of Ideas
...and artists or the "lost generation" of British writers who...the Western Front, or the Beat Generation of 1950s America. In the...popular culture (for example, Generation X) and entered into common...references to the significance of generations may be found in Western and...
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beat
Book article from: The Oxford Pocket Dictionary of Current English
...completely exhausted: I'm dead beat . 2. of or relating to the beat generation or its philosophy: beat poet Allen Ginsberg. PHRASES: beat all be amazing or impressive: well, that beats all. beat around the bush discuss a matter without coming...
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