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...they rush the stage--that sort of thing. But Russell can't resist playing these scenes for the vicarious turn-on. Tommy smashes a figurative mirror, regains his senses, sings, "I'm Free," and leads the millions in a religious movement dedicated to himself, the abolition of drugs and alchohol, and a rite of plugging the eyes, ears and mouths of the brethren and letting them loose on the pinball machines. The fans turn on him in the end, and Tommy realizes that he must seek spiritual salvation alone, but this final revelation seems incidental the way Russel presents...

Author: By Richard Turner, | Title: Sure Playing a Mean Pinball | 4/7/1975 | See Source »

...function of the punching season for all the clubs), each prospective member is required to tell one dirty joke, and his success in amusing the members often determines his fate at election time. New members are elected in December and initiated in February, when they are filled full of alchohol, led blindfolded through the Porcellian cubhouse, and finally unveiled before a large assemblage of exultant graduate members...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: College's Final Clubs Enjoy Secluded Life In a World that Pays Little Attention to Them | 6/16/1966 | See Source »

Leary's doubts about the psychedelic movement did not extend to marijuana. "The only problem with marijuana," he said, "is that it is almost free. It is not addictive, nontoxic, and less dangerous than alchohol...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Leary Says He'll Stop LSD Use, Warns of 'New Race of Mutants' | 4/23/1966 | See Source »

...entire section of shelves is devoted to W. C. T. U. literature exhorting men to give up "Demon Rum" and giving directions for teaching Sunday classes about alchohol and for raiding saloons...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Queer Titles Turn Up Among 40,000 Magazines, Catalogues And Tracts Buried in Cellar of Library for Past 50 Years | 12/13/1938 | See Source »

...Volstead Act, and John Grier Hibben led the movement for Repeal in New Jersey. But science tells us the climate is changing, and so it might be cooler now in Palmer Stadium than it was ten or twenty years ago, with a resultant rise in the consumption of alchohol. Or perhaps they believed, as this paper does, that drinking in a stadium, where neighboring eyes should be on the pigskin, not the bottle, is less objectionable than in most public gatherings. In a university where a realistic attitude is taken toward athletics and athletes, the cup that warms should...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GIVE US THIS DAY | 10/20/1936 | See Source »

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