Word: alpert
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mystical experience," she said, "so after Albrittion's lecture I tried to find out where to find out where I could get some psilocybin." She lost interest when she failed to find any, but two years later she read in the CRIMSON about the psychedelic work of Professor Richard Alpert and Instructor Timothy Leary, who were then at Harvard...
...after classes," she says, "licking envelopes, tying letters, and running errands. And I faithfully read all the papers they put out." The next year she became circulation manage for the Psychedelic Review which Leary helped publish. She graduated from Radcliffe in Mathematics and Philosophy in 1963, the same year Alpert was fired from Harvard for administering LSD to a student and Leary fired for neglecting his teaching duties...
...Bulletin, Miss Bieberman makes a correction in the peyote ex- traction process she had described in the previous issue. "If you did it the other way," she concludes, "you threw away the mescaline--we hope nobody did." Under the heading "The Movement," she announces lectures to be given by Alpert on the West Coast. His organization, which he describes as a "West Coast Nervous System," plans to open a Psychedelic Discotheque...
...open, Miss Bieberman encourages people to come to the PIC and ask questions. She tries to give them advice on how to "run sessions" and how to hold onto their experiences "up there" when they "come back down." She refers them to a book by Leary, Metzner, and Alpert called The Psychedelic Experience. "They come from all over," she said, "and they tell me about their experiences, and they're worried--did they do it right? Did they get far enough? And I tell them it's all the same...
...Mankato State College, will marry Collegemate Donna Erickson, 21, on July 9 in Minneapolis, and since the Vice President loves a party, he is turning over his eight-room house in Waverly, Minn., for the blowout reception. Hubert even promised the kids he'd bring Herb Alpert's stomping Tijuana Brass band to the party, and with all the Humphreys whooping on top of that, Waverly (pop. 580) ought to be the noisiest town north of the Pedernales...