Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young drug addicts, suspected or proven, won't profit much from your call for "franker conversation" [Aug. 30]. Have you ever tried to talk to a rebellious teenager? What parents must ask themselves is: "What is missing from my life, that I must use drugs-nicotine or alcohol-myself?" The same ingredients will be missing from the child's life, and he will have every reason to agree with the unspoken message of the parent's example: Life is not worth living without drugs. Parents could ask: Do we love enough...
...this principle that leads him to so much disjointed and self-pitying maundering. As a devout solipsist, he feels that the answer to his despair must come from within himself. As an obsessed truth seeker, however, he will be satisfied with nothing less than some externally produced revelation. Alcohol and Martin Buber's transcendant optimism provide only temporary relief...
...still leaves most parents incredulous. "Pot is like syph," says a senior at New Trier High School in Winnetka, Ill. "Parents can't conceive of it until it hits them in the face." When it does hit them, they scarcely know what to do. For, unlike sex and alcohol, drugs played no part in their own rites of passage. Wails one anguished Manhattan mother: "None of us knows anything about it. It's so new." One Detroit moth er turned her daughter in to the police, because "I was scared." All too fre quently, blind rage...
...crisis began this spring, after local police arrested nine students in a surprise marijuana raid. New Hampshire's largest newspaper, the archconservative Manchester Union Leader, followed with a front-page exposé titled "Bare Debauchery at Franconia College." The newspaper charged that "drugs, alcohol and sex are among the main ingredients of campus life. Naked and drugged or drunken men and women have been seen running through the halls at night, and orgies and nude parties have occurred." The accusations, supposedly based on secret reports from an unidentified informant, probably exaggerated the situation at Franconia. Nonetheless, the attack alarmed...
Surrounded by scorpions and fleas, sandstorms and the fire bombings from French helicopters, Dawley soon feels that his past is irretrievable and his future improbable. "They ambled like dead men, seeking refuge from the stony midday sun, no longer knowing that they walked. Land was like alcohol; he walked, and walking was like drinking. He drank it in on waking, and went all day from sundown to blackout wallowing in it until he dropped from exhaustion and total inebriation, happy and not caring if he ever woke again. Trudging all day over the flat stale beer of the stony plain...