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...inform your readers that in my last book [The Doors of Perception], I "prescribe mescaline, a derivative of peyote, for all mankind as an alterna tive to cocktails." Snappiness, alas, is apt to be in in verse ratio to accuracy. I merely suggested that it might be a good thing if psychologists, sociologists and pharmacologists were to get together and discuss a satis factory drug for general consumption. Mescaline, I said, would not do. But a chemical possessing the merits of mescaline without its drawbacks would be preferable to alcohol...
...then, did a Market which had broken on Oct. 23 demonstrate with a continued crash on Oct. 24 that the end of the Great Bull Market had really arrived? Apt appeared the analogy between the break on the market and a run on a bank. The Bank was U. S. Industry. Assets of the bank were the real assets of U. S. Industry. Stocks were the paper money which the bank had issued. Now all banks, even the Federal Reserve System, issue more money in paper than they have gold in their vaults. Every bank would be broken...
Equally and more immediately consequential is the impact of a Jackson candidacy upon the voting behavior of Blacks--especially working-class and lower-class Blacks who make up a disproportionate share of the "party of non-voters," to use Walter Dean Burnham's apt phrase. Nationally, some 41 percent of 17.6 million voting-age Afro-Americans are not registered (compared to 34 percent of voting-age whites) and in the South (whose electoral votes will be crucial in 1984) the situation is worse still. Voter apathy among Blacks is tantamount to political suicide in today's neo-conservative...
None of the transformations, of course, are inevitable. The Census Bureau's vision of the future depends on Americans moving from state to state for the rest of the century precisely as they did during the 1970s. In fact, such patterns are apt to be tempered, changed in intensity or direction. Extrapolating from the 1970 census, the Government predicted a 1980 U.S. population of 221 million; that turned out to be short of the actual number by 5 million people. Explains Gregory Spencer of the Census Bureau: "No one who leaves New York has to sign...
...seems designed to be all things to all young people. It attempts to combine the insouciance of David Letterman with Carson's unflappability, mixed with generous helpings of Saturday Night Lives repertory company and rock music, plus the shtiks and skits of SCTV. The show's symbolically apt set, with its crisscross scaffolding, tacky colors and potted ferns, is a hotel-lobby hodgepodge...