Word: alpert
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...Tibetan Book of the Dead, edited and announced by Timothy Leary, Richard Alpert, and Ralph Metzner. Written as a manual for trippers, this adaptation of the teachings of Tibetan mystics is fun to read but shouldn't be taken too seriously. The guide outlines the stages of an acid trip and tells you how to react at each point. You'd probably be better off finding your...
ALAN WATTS -- The author of lots of books on Eastern religions, friend of Richard Alpert, and who writes in psychotherapy East and West: "Play is not to be taken seriously, or, in other words, ideas of the world and of oneself which are social conventions and institutions are not to be confused with reality. The rules of communication are not necessarily
Wednesday, February 12 SINGER PRESENTS THE BEAT OF THE BRASS (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass tootle through the U.S., stopping in such places as Ellis Island, New Orleans during Mardi Gras, and the chil dren's zoo in Los Angeles. Repeat...
They were treated to selections from Herb Alpert and his Tijuana Brass, weekend football scores and lengthy newscasts. The diversion was especially welcome on the return trip, which turned out to be the least eventful part of the journey. Two more live telecasts were presented from the spacecraft, and more star navigation checks were made, but the last two mid-course corrections were canceled: Apollo 8 was dead on target...
Whether Kesey is in fact responsible for all this is, I think, a moot point. But he was taking LSD in late 1959, "a full two years," as Wolfe says, "before Mom&Dad&Buddy&Sis heard of the dread letters and clucked because Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were french-frying the brains of Harvard boys with...