Word: acidity
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real pity is that many of the students of our universities really feel that the theatrical radicals are the architects of a brave, new compassionate world, spiced with "rock" music, "acid" and "pot." There is a . . . group of students committed to radical change through violent means. Some of these may be irretrievable; all will require very firm handling. This is the criminal left that belongs not in a dormitory, but in a penitentiary. The criminal left is not a problem to be solved by the department of philosophy or the department of English-it is a problem for the Department...
Campus Ritual. Expectedly, youth predominated at most of the ecological happenings and teach-ins across the U.S. At 1,500 campuses and 10,000 schools, students, teachers-and sometimes parents-observed Earth Day by studying such previously recondite subjects as hydrocarbons and acid drainage from coal mines. Much of the day was given to theater and ritual. At the University of Wisconsin, 58 separate programs were staged, including a dawn "earth service" of Sanskrit incantations...
Because of its special hallucinogenic potency, LSD holds a particularly sinister terror for most Americans. Acid has been the villain in several bizarre and well-publicized incidents: there was the hoax that six Pennsylvania students were blinded by staring at the sun while stoned, the near death of a 5-year-old New York girl who innocently munched an LSD-laced sugar cube from the family refrigerator, the suicide of Art Linkletter's daughter Diane, 20, after a bad trip. Now a new chapter has been written in the grim folklore of LSD. Somebody slipped some acid into...
...Woodstock, however, is not an unrelieved celebration. For every shot of easy affection in the grass and innocent group bathing in the nude, there is a scene in the medical tent, or the ominous voice of the onstage announcers: "The word is that some of the brown acid being passed around is very bad stuff . . . Will Helen Savage please call her father at the Glory Motel in Woodridge...
...Fitchburg, Mass., with one of the biggest amounts of trout in the East. Above Fitchburg, it is Grade "A" and people pipe it to their houses to drink. In Fitchburg, half a dozen paper mills run the length of the river inside the city limits. They dump everything from acid to corrugated box refuse into the river. As the Nashua leaves Fitchburg, you can almost walk across it. It is grade...