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[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 21: Frankie, an Italian racketeer of about thirty, checked in for a minute. ‘Honey [...] is dat guy bothering you?’ .
at check in, v.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 49: ‘Oh dear,’ I exclaimed [...] ‘such a chore, swallowing them [i.e. martinis], one after the other!’ This ingenuous remark endeared me to the entire company. I was ‘in’.
at in, adv.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 163: Our chief concern was to keep our integrity [...] in the midst of the terrifying indifference and sentimentality around us—"media mush.".
at mush, n.1
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 164: [D]ishing out beef stew [I] found myself in the middle of Howl by Allen Ginsberg. Put down the ladle, and [...] was caught up immediately in that sad, powerful opening: ‘I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness...’ I was too turned on to concern myself with the stew.
at turned on, adj.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 163: Our chief concern was to keep our integrity (much time and energy went into defining the concept of the ‘sellout’).
at sell-out, n.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 11: My tongue played briefly with his slight, hard nipples, and I continued my journey south, pausing now and then to nip the fine, smooth flesh just under his ribs.
at south, adv.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 22: I had a few misgivings, but I squelched them.
at squelch, v.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 88: Two days and three suicide attempts later, somewhat put together, [. . .] Big Jack got on a bus and went back to his people in Worcester, Massachusetts.
at put together (adj.) under together, adj.
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 26: ‘Your hair is beautiful [...] and yet when it goes away, I look across the pillow and see a beautiful young boy.’ A trip. My old longing to be a pirate, tall and slim and hard, and not a girl at all.
at trip, n.4
[US] D. Di Prima Memoirs of a Beatnik 147: [A]fter a while it got spooky. Billy Daniels got shot [...] We decided it was getting uncool [. . .] so we split and went home.
at uncool, adj.
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