So, while I have some academic background, the beatnik writers were a huge influence.    From LearnThat.org.  [yourdictionary.com]

The aging beatnik from the psychedelic van, with his smelly tracking dog.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2007-03-01] Reference

(As they said before my time ... still I enjoy the "beatnik" image!).    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Taylor: Eat. Have Sex. Lose Weight.] Reference

Although you could probably replace "beatnik" with "stoner" and it would be just as funny.    From Wordnik.com.  ["Dig It! Give Me Two Slices!"] Reference

She slips up when her father explains to her the meaning of "beatnik" years before the word was coined in 1958.    From Wordnik.com.  [How the Season Got Its Soundtrack] Reference

Despite the 'beatnik' stereotype, Kerouac was a political conservative, especially when under the influence of his Catholic mother.    From Wordnik.com.  [King of the Beat] Reference

In the '50s, "beatnik" subculture and Action Painting in the pages of Life magazine planted the seeds.    From Wordnik.com.  [ArtsJournal: Daily Arts News] Reference

There was a kind of beatnik quality to the Durenmatt’s suit.    From Wordnik.com.  [Middlesex]

Get your grubby meat hooks off it you crazy beatnik!.    From Wordnik.com.  [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference

A beatnik got the newspaper right from underneath me!!!!!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [super-suzan Diary Entry] Reference

The gift shop also features books about, and by beatnik writers.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bush-bashing Addicts Face "Cold Turkey" Cure] Reference

Record setting coolness (and not in the beatnik kind of cool way).    From Wordnik.com.  [Janice Taylor: New Yorkers: Turning the Gray Skies of Summer into Money] Reference

All they had were rock-star/beatnik wigs; everything looked silly.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mike Stark: Hanging with Insurance Companies and Their Lobbyists] Reference

I want to look cool and yet not beatnik in an urban girl kind of way.    From Wordnik.com.  [cubiclegirl Diary Entry] Reference

So we went to Manhattan to see what a beatnik was and found out it was us.    From Wordnik.com.  [Richie Havens: A Folk Icon, Still Strumming] Reference

And in a way, having writers staying in a bookshop is a very beatnik idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 13, 2008] Reference

When will those beatnik hippies let the real men deal with our national defense!?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Jamie Kilstein: The Liberal Military Is At It Again] Reference

The father was a deadbeat beatnik poet who had become a drug dealer and gone to prison.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Unconventional Love Story] Reference

And Peggy and a few others discover Bob Dylan, while Don dabbles with a beatnik girlfriend.    From Wordnik.com.  [William Bradley: Mad Men: Three Seasons On and Looking Forward] Reference

He went to college and acted like a — "She searches for the word." — beatnik for a while.    From Wordnik.com.  [Land of the Blind]

She was older, a photographer, always in black turtlenecks because she fancied herself a beatnik.    From Wordnik.com.  [Kate Clinton: Re-Gifting] Reference

Sam had become kind of a beatnik over the past few weeks and he was above getting overly emotional.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Big Name Buttons] Reference

He remembered a thing a beatnik poet had said to his audience in San Francisco, six summers before.    From Wordnik.com.  [1968]

The beatnik Pekar promoted avant-garde trends; Mr. Crumb tuned out music recorded after about 1935.    From Wordnik.com.  [His Life Was Some Serious Books] Reference

But when she was 15 she began to hang out in beatnik clubs in the Village and learned to shoot up amphetamines.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Gentle Place To Live And Die] Reference

Look at it like this is one of those rambling monologues you'd see at a college coffee house back in the beatnik era.    From Wordnik.com.  [Robert J. Elisberg: The Comedy Stylings of Mr. Rush Limbaugh] Reference

We had no money, and we took in boarders: nudists, alcoholics, (fascinating) young beatnik actresses, semi-pedophiles.    From Wordnik.com.  [Sheila Weller: Rest In Peace -- Not, William Zantzinger] Reference

I don't see the Hendrix connection, but for me RH has painted this evocative portrait of a Zen beatnik out "proud-walking.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The WELL: China Cat Sunflower] Reference

His words seem jumbled, almost as if he's stumbling through his prose like an old beatnik raconteur set to a puckish drone.    From Wordnik.com.  [FallNews - anecdotes] Reference

He's the product of loving beatnik parents who raised him in the Lower East Side in a tenement apartment with no television.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Fall online - latest Fall News] Reference

A kid from New Jersey, he moved to San Francisco "at the end of the beatnik period and the beginning of the free speech era.".    From Wordnik.com.  [Julia Moulden: Old Hippie Becomes New Radical] Reference

Meanwhile, a few old beatnik and hippy coots still understand how arbitrary even the most deeply held concepts of reality are.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ghosts of Tim Leary and Hunter Thompson] Reference

She grew her dark hair long and straight, smoked Galloises in beatnik cafes, wore all black and teetered around in stillettos.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rebecca Walker: A Wonderful Surprise: Jen Deaderick's Happy Family] Reference