"Much of Beat culture represented a negative stance rather than a positive one. It was animated more by a vague feeling of cultural and emotional displacement, dissatisfaction, and yearning, than by a specific purpose or program. It would be a lot easier if we were only looking for movies with "beatniks" in them. San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coined the word (which by sarcastically punning on the recently launched Russian Sputnik was apparently intended to cast doubt on the beatnik's red-white-and-blue-blooded all-Americanness). And the mass media popularized the concept. Dobie Gillis, Life magazine, Charles Kuralt, and a host of other entertainers and journalists reduced Beatness to a set of superficial, silly externals that have stayed with us ever since: goatees, sunglasses, poetry readings, coffeehouses, slouches, and "cool, man, cool" jargon..." Carney, Ray. "Program Notes," Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965Arquivado 06 de setembro de 2006 en Wayback Machine.. New York: Whitney Museum of Art and Paris: Flammarion, 1995.]
«It is because I am Beat, that is, I believe in beatitude and that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son to it... Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?» Aronowitz, Al. The Blacklisted JournalistArquivado 28 de setembro de 2007 en Wayback Machine.
"We know beatniks aren't good", she said, "but we thought they just dressed sloppy and talked funny. Now we know that they get married without licenses and things like that." Venice Virtual, Venice in Magazines and other ephemeral media, Venice Virtual. Consultado o 24 de marzo de 2012.
«It is because I am Beat, that is, I believe in beatitude and that God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son to it... Who knows, but that the universe is not one vast sea of compassion actually, the veritable holy honey, beneath all this show of personality and cruelty?» Aronowitz, Al. The Blacklisted JournalistArquivado 28 de setembro de 2007 en Wayback Machine.
"Much of Beat culture represented a negative stance rather than a positive one. It was animated more by a vague feeling of cultural and emotional displacement, dissatisfaction, and yearning, than by a specific purpose or program. It would be a lot easier if we were only looking for movies with "beatniks" in them. San Francisco columnist Herb Caen coined the word (which by sarcastically punning on the recently launched Russian Sputnik was apparently intended to cast doubt on the beatnik's red-white-and-blue-blooded all-Americanness). And the mass media popularized the concept. Dobie Gillis, Life magazine, Charles Kuralt, and a host of other entertainers and journalists reduced Beatness to a set of superficial, silly externals that have stayed with us ever since: goatees, sunglasses, poetry readings, coffeehouses, slouches, and "cool, man, cool" jargon..." Carney, Ray. "Program Notes," Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965Arquivado 06 de setembro de 2006 en Wayback Machine.. New York: Whitney Museum of Art and Paris: Flammarion, 1995.]
Cadro da historieta Archie, na que Jughead e Archie están vestidos como beatniks (boina, roupa desaxustada e rota) e un home maior berra asustado: "Beatniks!", mentres que Jughead responde con típica xerga beatnik: "Como se estivéramos con eles, papai!" e Archie pola súa banda comenta, sinalando o ceo: "Alá fóra! Vila Espacial!". "Beatniks", Archie, Archie Comics.
