Ah well, the confusion between beatniks, hippies and 1940s jazz is to be expected as I've never really studied any of those phenomena in any depth. Mea culpa. The fact is, however, that the word "cool" is NOT one of my favourite usages.

tsuwm said afterthought: Maynard G. Krebs was a beatnik, not a hippy!

And (to move to far safer ground) John Maynard Keynes was an economist, not a beatnik!


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