… July 3, 1947: The Young Jack Kerouac Coins “Beat” While Grieving His Father. (Hat tip, Rus Bowden.)
In an entry penned in the middle of weeklong Independence Day party at his friend Allen Ginsberg’s house in Harlem, the twenty-five-year-old Kerouac uses the word “beat” as an adjective for the first time, a year before he formally introduced the term “Beat Generation” to describe New York’s underground nonconformist creative youth.
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