BEATNIK

— NATALIE WYSONG
SPOTLIGHT

Writer Jack Kerouac initially used the phrase “Beat Generation” to describe a state of world-weariness. Later, he said it conveyed a sense of spiritual enlightenment (“beatific”). Adding “nik” (a la Sputnik, Russia’s satellite launched in 1957) to the...

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