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=Beatniks= Coined by the San Francisco Chronicle's Herb Caen in April of 1958, the term "beatnik" was a play on the names of the Russian satellite Sputnik and The Beats movement. This association suggested that The Beats were totally out of touch with mainstream society and that they could possibly be pro-Communist.

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