Word: acidizing
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Many campus bookstores are stuck with embarrassingly large inventories of works by yesterday's gurus?Hermann Hesse, Herbert Marcuse, Jerry Rubin. In rock music, the staple of the youth culture, a shift can be perceived from acid rock to the soft ballads of Neil Young, Gordon Lightfoot and James Taylor. There is a strong revival of interest in folk-rock singers of the early '60s. The most popular movies are the ones that examine and expose contemporary hypocrisies: Diary of a Mad Housewife (male chauvinism), Catch-22 (war), and Lovers and Other Strangers (marriage...
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...
...mean that no one should be allowed to have pets. Maybe my neighbors at home beat up on their pet rabbit, but that doesn't mean Mt. Kisco should pass a no-pets law. And we haven't discontinued athletics here just because some guys smoke or drop acid before meets...
Born. To Grace Slick, 31, acid-voiced rock singer, and Paul Kantner, 29, guitarist, both of Jefferson Airplane fame: a daughter; in San Francisco. Name: "god" (a small g). No plans for marriage: god will have no surname. Said Grace: "Art Linkletter and Al Capp will be disappointed to learn that she is very healthy, in spite of what they say about drug-crazed hippies...