Word: acids
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cause appears to be the lack of a single enzyme which is supposed to aid in the breakdown of something called isovaleric acid into simpler compounds. If the enzyme is missing, the acid accumulates in the body and a whole chain of chemical reactions is broken...
...powerful creative tradition. Says Peter Hall of the Royal Shakespeare Company: "We are in a theater that is front-page news. We are denounced as subversive, immoral, filthy -it's all terribly healthy." John Osborne is one of the world's richest playwrights, though still as acid as ever: his latest, A Patriot for Me, is all about homosexuality in decadent Vienna...
...Francisco State College's famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa has no illusions. When ETC., the quarterly review of the International Society for General Semantics, devoted a special issue to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, Editor Hayakawa chose a few acid words for acid heads. Wrote he: "Most people haven't learned to use the senses they possess. I not only hear music, I listen to it. I find the colors of the day such vivid experiences that I sometimes pound my steering wheel with excitement. And I say, why disorient your beautiful senses with drugs and poisons before...
Such dangers do not deter the acid heads, or "psychedelics"-even though some users are willing to admit that they found no great "show," or had a "freak trip" (a bad one), or "tripped out" (the worst kind). Said one two-time user last week: "Would I try it again? No, because I've been to places inside myself where no one should ever go." Most psychiatrists who have had to treat post-LSD patients would agree...
...From LSD's chemical name, dextro-lysergic acid diethylamide...