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1. Kerouac was a casualty too.
2. Kerouac is considered by some as the "King of the Beatniks " as well as the "Father of the Hippies ".
3. Kerouac was charged as an accessory, and Burroughs as a material witness, but neither were prosecuted.
4. Kerouac was hailed as a major American writer, and reluctantly as the voice of the Beat Generation.
5. Kerouac is generally considered to be the father of the Beat movement, although he actively disliked such labels.

Characters

1. The movie also sheds light on the real people and places on which Kerouac based his characters and settings, including the cabin in Bixby Canyon.
2. Featuring Jack Kerouac and influential beat characters.
3. Jack Kerouac speaks for all the characters and comments on their actions.

Written

1. Note also that there is apparently only one Spanish author as good as Kerouac (Cervantes), and none who's ever written in any Asian language.

Group

1. The adjective "beat" was introduced to the group by Herbert Huncke, though Kerouac expanded the meaning of the term.

Road

1. Beginning of the original typed roll where Kerouac wrote On the Road.
2. I first discovered Jack Kerouac when a friend of mine was going on and on about this book "On the Road" that he had read, only this past November.

Style

1. It was at about the time that Kerouac wrote The Subterraneans that he was approached by Ginsberg and others to formally explicate his style.

Writing

1. Nicosia, a poet and noted biographer of Jack Kerouac, is in the early stage of writing his own book on the Jamal case.

Bodhisattva

1. Some, mainly American convert Buddhists including Jack Kerouac, are recently incorporating Jesus into Buddhism by claiming he is a bodhisattva.

Suzuki

1. A meeting in New York between Kerouac, his Beat-poet friend Allen Ginsberg, and Suzuki is said to have produced no sparks.
2. Around this time, Suzuki was beginning to attract a broader audience that included a certain struggling novelist named Jack Kerouac (1922-69).

Allen

1. I think Allen admired Kerouac for his muscular prose and his descriptive powers.
2. Through Lucien, Allen finally meets Edie's boyfriend, Jack Kerouac, of whom he's been hearing so much.

Novel

1. Kerouac uses the term several times in the novel, to describe himself and fellow zen Buddhists.

Jack Kerouac

1. The best-known Beat poet, Allen Ginsberg, followed the lead of fellow Beat, Jack Kerouac, in reciting his work for audio recording.
2. Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassady, William Burroughs and Herbert Huncke all feature in the poem, in distorted form, as if under strobe lighting.
3. He has written a movie adaptation of Jack Kerouac 's On the Road for producer Francis Ford Coppola, which was slated for production in 2006.

Poetry

1. His admiration for the writing of Jack Kerouac inspired him to take poetry more seriously.

Poet

1. The main characters are the narrator Ray Smith, based on Kerouac, and Japhy Ryder, based on the poet, essayist and Buddhist Gary Snyder.
2. Although Kerouac is known mainly as being a novelist, he was a poet as well and performed his work as spoken word.
3. Neal Cassady -author and poet; provided the basis for the character Dean Moriarty in Jack Kerouac 's novel On The Road.

Writers

1. THE ROAD (1907), a collection of short stories, inspired later writers like John Steinbeck and Jack Kerouac.

Generation

1. Because Creeley was a friend of Allen Ginsberg, Gregory Corso and Jack Kerouac, he was often identified as being part of the Beat generation.

Gary Snyder

1. Later, Kerouac would include ideas he developed in his Buddhist studies, beginning with Gary Snyder.
2. City Lights became known as the heart of the "Beat" movement, which included writers such as Kenneth Rexroth, Gary Snyder, Allen Ginsberg, and Jack Kerouac.
3. Rosemont's chapter on the beats particularly Jack Kerouac and Gary Snyder introduces the Wobbly concept of the "hip" and the theme of west coast Buddhism.

Friends

1. A Buddhist neighbour of Kerouac and Snyder, who quickly became friends with the two Beats.
2. He became friends with Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, and Michael McClure, and played a key role in the explosive poetic revolution of the '50s and '60s.
3. It was through his friend David Kammerer that he met Jack Kerouac and his group of friends.

Jams

1. Some of the other jams (two versions of "Stardust" and "Kerouac") feature Dizzy Gillespie, who at age 24 was still searching for his style.

Father

1. Kerouac is considered the "father" of the Beat Generation.

Hippies

1. Kerouac is considered by some as the "King of the Beats " as well as the "Father of the Hippies ".

Book

1. The book was critiqued by Allen Ginsberg and others close to Kerouac as a "travelogue" and as over-sentimentalized.
2. Revolutionary not only in subject matter but also in style, this book (written in 1950) launched the Beat movement and crowned Jack Kerouac its king.
3. The book was published in an underground series that included work by Allen Ginsberg and Jack Kerouac.

Burroughs

1. In the 1950s, Venice became the stomping grounds of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, William S. Burroughs, and other beats.
2. As a freshman, he became acquainted with Lucien Carr, who introduced him to Kerouac and William S. Burroughs.
3. Through his ongoing friendship with Ginsberg, Corso was introduced to other members of the Beat movement, among them Jack Kerouac and Williams S. Burroughs.

Ginsberg

1. Kerouac only wrote out his concepts of Spontaneous Prose at Ginsberg's insistence because Ginsberg wanted to learn how to apply the technique to his poetry.
2. Though Ginsberg was never a member of the Communist Party, Kerouac named him " Carlo Marx " in On the Road.
3. Norman Podhoretz, a student at Columbia with Kerouac and Ginsberg, later became a critic of the Beats.

Allen Ginsberg

1. William Burroughs was himself a native of St. Louis, and it was through Carr that Kerouac came to know both Burroughs and Allen Ginsberg.
2. The private Saijo left most of the writing, fame and glory to the likes of Kerouac, poet Lew Welch, Allen Ginsberg and William Burroughs.
3. When he first met Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs, they were interested in writing and also unpublished.

Kerouac

1. The press often used the term "Beat Generation" in reference to a small group of writers, the friends of Ginsberg, Kerouac, or Burroughs.
2. In the book, Japhy Ryder (Gary Snyder) tells Ray Smith (Kerouac) that he (Ray) is a "Bodhisattva, a great wise being or great wise angel".
3. He was a student at Columbia who knew Ginsberg and Kerouac (some of his student poetry was published by Allen Ginsberg before their falling-out).

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