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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only then did the poet, Robert L. McCulloh, head of the university news bureau, speak up. There is no subject, said he, but the vocabulary is demanding, all right. Word-dazzled one night while browsing through a thesaurus, onetime Newsman (Neosho, Mo. News) McCulloh wrote 35 especially incandescent words on separate pieces of paper. Then he stuck them in a box, pulled them out at random, tacked them together with appropriate connectives, and added a wry title: Counterfeit Generation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Cheatniks Among Beatniks | 2/2/1959 | See Source »

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