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Beatnik is a term for an anti-materialistic culture of people in the late 1950s analogous to hippies a decade later.  The term was coined by Herb Caen on April 2, 1958 in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.  He modified an earlier, more positive term [[Beat Generation]] and added the -nik suffix from [[Sputnik]], which had launched in the prior six months.

Beatnik is a term for an anti-materialistic culture of people in the late 1950s analogous to hippies a decade later.  The term was coined by Herb Caen on April 2, 1958 in an article in the San Francisco Chronicle.  He modified an earlier, more positive term [[Beat Generation]] and added the -nik suffix from [[Sputnik]], which had launched in the prior six months.