I think tsuwm might be right. The beatnics were the dark broody types. Wore dark glasses, went to depressing poetry readings, smoked unfiltered cigarettes and riled against the establishment in a rather sedentary way since "there was no point in anything anyway". If I remember (I was rather young) instead of clapping their hands to show appreciation, they snapped their fingers. Hippies, on the other hand, were rather free-loving happy types.