Date:  Thu, 21 Aug 1997 10:58:07 -0400
From:  Fred Shapiro <fred.shapiro[AT SYMBOL GOES HERE]YALE.EDU>
Subject: Re: WILLIAM BURROUGHS SPECIAL: Beat, Hipnik

Note that John Clellon Holmes used _beat generation_ in his novel _Go_ and
in the _New York Times Magazine_ in 1952, not 1957.


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