Word: call
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Winning the Works. Down at the Café de l'Agriculture, on the corner of the Place de la République and the Rue de la Liberté, the talk turns easily to the mayor himself. The men around the bar call Dabard "our own little De Gaulle" and yarn about his imperious tactics. The new water works? Ah, well, Dabard knew that the town council disapproved, so he appointed an independent commission to "study" the plan. To no one's surprise, the commission thought the project was splendid, and Dabard signed a construction contract. The council...
...either of them became, they were never out of touch during the day. If Bobby was conducting hearings as a congressional committee counsel, Ethel would arrive in the morning, attend the hearings, drive home for lunch with the children, return for the afternoon hearings, then go back home and call her friends to say how brilliantly Bobby had performed. Later, when Bobby was Attorney General, she and a clutch of children often showed up on working evenings at the Justice Department with trays of hamburgers, milk and ice cream...
...Although all four discussants get in their licks, there is no denying that Howard and Harding provide the most sparks. It is a joy to observe these two acute minds engaging and bouncing off each other, now clashing and now agreeing. Many people today speak at each other and call it "dialogue." Here one sees Howard and Harding really listening to each other and thinking and reacting. The result more than once brings the reader to the edge of his seat, and forces him to become involved in the flow of thought...
...acid thought are really only those ideas that deal with high level revelation, mysticism, telepathy, and transcendence of the ego. The LSD experience should not be confused with, for example, the stream-of-consciousness way of representing the way we experience the regular world. It would be confusing to call, let's say, James Joyce an acid tripper...
There are a number of people whose work is very much what the acid experience is about. We will call these guys the acid trippers. Some of them (like Hesse and McLuhan) have never taken LSD, but have explained the ideas the are very helpful in trying to understand what the acid experience is like. Most of the others' writings are directly influenced by their experience with acid...