Word: ageing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Drugs spread horizontally at Andover because all four classes share dormitories with only other members of their class. There is a minimum of socializing between different age groups. As a result, each class comes up with strange new drugs of their own. For the sophomores it is Romilar. Romilar is a cough syrup, $1.50 without prescription. Drink a whole bottle down to get high. One student said, "It doesn't make you throw up like Lavoris (another high). It stiffens you up so you can't move...
...effect, not a cause, of suffering, Jarvis told me. In order to assure peace, the level of personal tension in the world must be lowered. "Maharishi can remove the tension," said Jarvis. "He says if 10 per cent of the world meditates, the world will enter a golden age." What if none of the 10 per cent is Chinese? "That wouldn't matter. The influence will be automatic--if all the meditators were in the United States, the influence would still be felt in Russia and China...
...California's San Bernardino Valley College in 1966. Midway in his second semester, dispirited by his mother's death and struggling to sort out his life, Webb dropped out. He had learned the piano and organ well enough to play in his father's church at age eleven and had started composing at 13, so he decided to go to Hollywood and be a songwriter. He wangled a $50-a-week job with a recording studio and rented a cheap apartment, where he slept curled up in a blanket on the bare floor. When...
...Vlaminck, by virtue of his youth, temperament and training-or rather, lack of it-it was the right movement at the right time. He transmuted its gaudy splendors into rockhard canvases that can be looked at again and again without their seeming to fade or weaken. By the age of 30, he had attained heights he never regained in a long lifetime of painting. He also recorded, for later generations, the candor and gaiety of a placid era and countryside that were soon to be buried under the grimy onrush of history...
...half of the bill might well be Wild in the Streets. The thesis of the movie is that the U.S. is ripe for a teen-age entertainer-turned-politico, a theme explored recently in the English film Privilege. The central character is a delinquent (Christopher Jones) who caterwauls his way into the hearts of young America. An opportunistic Senator (Hal Holbrook) gets a law passed that enfranchises 15-year-olds. They elect Jones President, and suddenly, he-and-shedonism is for everyone under 35. Oldsters who have passed that milestone are packed into concentration camps and mind-blown with...