[Ads-l] Antedating of "Beat Generation"

[William Salmon]

Speaking of antedating, I think Teddy Wayne antedates the word 'yuppie' by
four years in this New York Times piece of May 8, 2015.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/10/fashion/tell-tale-signs-of-the-modern-day-yuppie.html

The earliest OED citation is 1984, but Wayne mentions this 1980 citation
from author Dan Rottenberg in Chicago magazine:

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/May-1980/Yuppie/

WS



On Fri, Jun 26, 2015 at 10:27 AM, Shapiro, Fred <fred.shapiro at yale.edu>
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> beat generation (OED 1952)
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> 1948 John Clellon Holmes _Journal_ 10 Dec. in Arthur Knight _The Beat
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> n: A Primary Sourcebook_ (1987)  Kerouac speaks to Harrington (in a letter
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> written and mailed from here) about "the beat generation," the "generation
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> of furtives".
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