Word: acidic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stoned. And once it was the first time-that day your senses revealed their power and a glass of cold orange juice was the best thing that ever happened to you. . . . But that was a long time ago. Maybe a year or two later you dropped your first acid with a friend. And that was far out too, merging with the linoleum on the floor, muttering about unity and totality. Yeah, it's been a long time. Headplay at Theater Workshop Boston is about that first time; it's about the time in between. And it is about...
...Theories abound, few of them satisfactory. The fading out of ear-numbing, mind-blowing acid rock, some say, is related to the softening of the youth revolution. Its decline is variously viewed as a symptom of either progress toward harmony and thoughtfulness or a tragic slide from activist rage into a mood of "enlightened apathy." There is also the desire for individual expression on the part of talented rock musicians too long cooped up in their communal palaces of sound. Many of them came to realize that the higher the decibel rate, the less creative subtlety possible for composers...
...streets, drug use has apparently not declined during the winter. Street people seem to be using mostly "downs" (depressants) instead of acid and mescaline, which are more popular in warmer weather...
Marijuana remains an almost universal form of recreation, but its use is far more discriminating. Gone are the big smoke-ins punctuated by acid rock and strobe lights. The smoking is done in small groups of friends, and the aim is not an easy high but a better understanding of self. Indeed, for many students, says Martin Meyerson, president of the University of Pennsylvania, "any concern beyond the self tends to be regarded as too luxurious...
...spring of 1967 at the Monterey Pop Festival, at a time when it seemed the movement would ensnare the whole country in its spirit. "It's hard to describe the feeling we had," recalls John Sinclair, chairman of the radical White Panther Party. "Everybody was taking all that acid and dancing and screaming in the music and uniting on every level with everybody else around him . . . We had a whole new vision of the world, and we knew that everything would be all right once the masses got the message we were sending out through our music, our frenzied dancing...