Word: acids
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are lots of Rogers in Cambridge now, and more on the way. This Roger ended up here on the San Francisco rebound. He was one of the people we all read about in Life magazine. He was there for the acid summer: the summer of love when (even Life said so) Haight-Asbury was an urban pastorale. Roger said he took acid 200 times in San Francisco, and even if he's lying, what's the difference? Suppose it was only 100 times...
...They are probably much better. They require a confidence in who you are and how what you do relates to America that street people probably don't have. I doubt, for example, that Quakers feel an existential need to riot to serve the Vietnamese. Nor must they take acid to prove to themselves the disparity between their world and that of their fathers. Their fathers are probably Quakers...
...more with language and style, as is the case with John Updike, 38, or with a relatively narrow range of human experience, as is true of Philip Roth, 37. There is no Faulkner, no Hemingway, no Fitzgerald, no O'Neill in our lost generation. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test may well be our Great Gatsby, and Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad our Desire Under the Elms...
...task was formidable. Hidden in the chromosomes, genes are basically sections of an extremely complex molecule called deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA). Twisted together like a spiral staircase, or double helix, the twin strands of the DNA molecule are linked by "steps" composed of pairs of mutually attracting chemicals, or bases, called nucleotides. DNA contains only four different kinds of nucleotides, but they can be arranged in an endless variety of complex sequences. Each complete sequence-some including thousands of steps on the molecular staircase-is a single gene containing a coded message of heredity. With that message, the gene can order...
...Fifth Beatle and that time when Phil Spector made them stop the airplane and let him off because he knew-Spector knew!-it was going to crash. And it has been a year and a half since the publication-on the same day!!!-of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Pump House Gang, and that's a lot of low profile for the wunderkind of the New Journalism...