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...This is the generation that has burned out many of its lights and lives before it is old enough to vote. "The first thing I realized was how different it is to go to high school today," wrote Maureen Orth in a "Last Supplement" to the Whole Earth Catalog. "Acid trips in the seventh grade, sex in the eighth, the Viet Nam War a daily serial on TV since you were nine, parents and school worse than 'irrelevant'?meaningless. No wonder Jesus is making a great comeback." The death of authority brought the curse of uncertainty. As Thomas Farber...
...enthusiasm is not universal. By no means a majority of the young, or their elders, are soldiers in the revolution ?any more than they were flower children or acid trippers. Some call the Jesus movement a fad or just another bad trip. Is it? Is the growing fascination with Jesus a passing, adolescent infatuation? There are obvious fad aspects: Jesus shirts (JESUS is MY LORD) bumper stickers (SMILE, GOD LOVES YOU), posters, buttons (THE MESSIAH is THE MESSAGE) and, inevitably, a Jesus-People wristwatch. Some followers are affecting a Christ couture: white pants and tunics, Mexican-peasant style. There...
Paul and Sue dropped acid. They tripped over to Soldiers' Field and split another cap on the fifty-yard-line. Then they walked to the Business School, glided into an empty court yard, and heard the "Tara" theme from Gone With the Wind being played on a distant phonograph...
Woodstock would hardly seem to deserve its luminous aura. There were beatings; hundreds took poison acid; at one point at least 75,000 people screamed "Jump" to some kid on top of a three hundred foot scaffolding; all "natural for a city of 400,000," said the papers. There were deaths at Woodstock also, three of them, but along with two births they were attributed to the "life cycle." A boy without a place to sleep lay down in unknown field and was run over the next morning by a tractor. Now no camera crew was present then, or when...
...clientele at first were mostly zonked by bad acid trips, and later strung out by huge, mind-bending doses of speed (amphetamine). Finally, many were destroyed by heroin. Their condition reflected a decline described by Jackie, a victim who saw it all in her late teens: "Sometimes I wish I was back in kindergarten," she told Smith. "It used to be like that here when I first came-people giving away flowers, sharing their food. Now it's turned into a big ego trip, nobody smiling or sharing...