Word: acidizing
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...Nieman sat there in the Faculty Club among hisses and boos, seeing in one room those tragic emotional and cultural divisions polarizing the races all across America. He had long been familiar with poisons boiling in white working-class hearts and among so-called Middle Americans; he knew of acid chemicals fizzing in a high percentage of blacks. At Harvard, he had learned, precious little rapport existed between black and white students. Black students to stand alone, to do their own thing: there was something absolutely tribal about it. White radicals thought blacks narrow in their political or sociological interests...
...view. It is a measure of the man's incredible philosophical wishy-washiness that one of his novels, The Moon Is A Harsh Mistress, is one of the guiding tracts of the YAF, while Stranger In A Strange Land (his greatest, I might add) has helped inspire thousands of acid-freaks, beginning with Ken Kesey...
...wish-fulfillment. Nicholson sends the items on the table, amber water glasses, placements, and all, crashing toward the floor, there is a jump cut, and we're on the road again. It's a curious, but persistent form of emotional poverty, one which eats at the movie like acid on celluloid...
...Resist spiritually; stay high . . . praise God . . . love life . . . blow the mechanical mind with acid . . . does them . . . dose them . . . does them...
Incredible Prescience. Pompidou clearly emerges as the Good Guy to De Gaulle's Bad Guy. Through his quotes, De Gaulle appears to be acid-tongued, vengeful and often petty. Yet he also emerges as a man with an obviously brilliant political mind. Almost three weeks before the Six-Day War in 1967, he informed a Cabinet meeting that he was about to meet with Israeli Foreign Minister Abba Eban, who was then in Paris. The general, with almost incredible prescience, told his ministers that he planned to tell Eban...