Word: acidizing
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...friends on both sides of the aisle (though every project in his bill must satisfy a cost-benefits formula established by the Army Corps of Engineers). His hackles rise at any suggestion that his subcommittee ever approves a boondoggle: "Name one project that won't stand the acid," he challenges. Kirwan views his work as nation building. "Unfortunately, men are selfish, they are just interested in taking care of themselves," he says. "We had better wake up and do what is necessary to preserve, protect and develop America...
...Broadway potboiler, Leary's new show ought to be socko box office, as Variety might put it, although nabes in the sticks will be better off running Tarzan instead. For acid heads and the impressionable, however, Leary provides all the right production values: religiose gimmicks, weirdo music, sexo fantasy, all boffo. Following a run of twelve weekly performances in Manhattan, Leary will open his show in California, which manages to be boffo, religioso, weirdo and sexo with or without LSD. The turn may not make psychedelic drug-taking and its kicks comprehensible to the average ticket buyer...
According to Ronald Vanelli, director of Laboratories at Harvard, LSD can be easily made from the related chemical lysergic acid--itself not an illegal drug--by anyone with a basic knowledge of organic chemistry...
...official probe has been made at Harvard. Dean Monro said yesterday that he has no reason to believe LSD is being made here. Until he does, he said, he is not planning to recommend that access to chemicals like lysergic acid be controlled more strictly in the laboratories...
Unchecked desire, suggests Dumitriu, spirals darkly downward into chaos, madness or murder, and he illuminates the descent with passages of coruscating prose. He clearly intends his book to be an acid analysis of decline in the West, but U.S. readers will more likely find it just another well-wrought urn in the fashionable temple of despair...