The New York Times coined the term Beat Generation as an insult

Evidence

In a hostile review of Kerouac’s latest novel The Dharma Bums, the New York Times gave the writer his soubriquet and derisively referred to his fans as “Beejees” (for Beat Generation). — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 26

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