Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police have been stopping people on Charles St., trying to crack down, asking for I.D.'s," Janet said. She was stopped last week. "I had almost a pound of grass and a lot of acid," she said, "so I showed my college I.D. and he let me go. If I didn't have stuff I would have refused; they will take you in to the station then and you can get them for false arrest...
...dangerous," said Bonnie, a cute, sweet-looking college sophomore and a friend of Janet's. "The other night by the Common this guy offered to lay some acid on me, free. I thought he was being really nice. Then he said, 'Hey, how old are you anyway, 15?' God1 He could have ruined some 15-year-old kid." Charles Street life can be free, but not necessarily warm, and not necessarily safe...
...hasn't been the only one, and each one who follows him down the acid trail makes his experience seem less unique. Wolfe never makes us feel we are in the presence of a great teacher...
...radical insight. But then, a moment away from the presence of the style, and the outlines of the event began to blur, the figure of Kesey himself became insubstantial. In the end the Christ-like robes Wolfe fashioned for Kesey are much too large. We are left with another acid-head and a bunch of kooky kids who did a few krazy things...
...exclamations, interjections aplenty. It is a hey-look-no-hands way of writing. No character can come to life in this style. There is, ultimately, Wolfe's style operating in a vacuum, doing tricks, pulling rabbits out of hats. And only later does one realize that--as on some acid trip--both rabbit and hat were imaginary...