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...phrases we used to describe what's happening in the experience (like: 'go with the flow," "synch," "kairos," and "total attention"). Here is Wolfe describing Kesey on one of the first acid trips in history: "The first thing he knew about it was a squirrel dropped an acorn from a tree outside, only it was tremendously loud and sounded like it was not outside but right in the room with him and not actually a sound, either, but a great suffusing presence, visual, almost tactile, a great impacting of . . . blue . . . all around him and suddenly he was in a realm...
...Acorn Stakes at Belmont by six lengths, packing 121 lbs. and tying the one-mile track record of 1 min. 34 4/5 sec.-set in 1942 by the famed Count Fleet, carrying only 116 lbs. She followed that up with a ten-length victory in Belmont's 1¼-mile Mother Goose Stakes and a twelve-length triumph in the 1¼-mile Coaching Club American Oaks, thereby becoming the first thoroughbred in history to capture the filly Triple Crown. By post time at the $57,950 Delaware Oaks two weeks ago, Dark Mirage had just about...
...Beatle debate continues, and teen-boppers all over the nation are coming to the rescue of their sacred quartet. The generational war has begun, and Virginia S. Daniels of 36 Acorn St., Malden, is circulating a petition in defense of John Lennon's remark that the Beatles are more popular than, Jesus, Miss Daniels has received a number of Bibles from those who are concerned for her soul...
...There was a concert to be played in Boston, so he packed his suitcases, not forgetting a shoe bag crammed with the good-luck charms that his four children have given him over the years?baby shoes, a turquoise marble, a set of jacks, a pipe-cleaner doll, an acorn, a crumbled plaster angel. He put on his fur-lined blue suede shoes and his long navy blue overcoat with the wide Persian lamb lapels, cocked his black beaver fedora rakishly over one eye, and headed for the airport...
...PEACE. Though it is never easy to shrink an oak back to an acorn, Phoenix Theater's production of the mammoth Tolstoy classic is surprisingly dramatic. In this play, and in an alternate offering, Man and Superman, individual performances are submerged in beautiful ensemble playing...