Word: cankered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into sentimentality. The Luther kids-all played by nonprofessional actors-live in a cabin wallpapered with newspaper, which also serves from time to time as a residence for a pet pig and a cow. The surrounding mountain country has a lavish beauty, on which the Luther cabin is a canker...
Drugs provide one of the quickest, easiest ways to withdraw from the ordinary waking state of consciousness. Weil rejects the notion that drug use in our society indicates internal unrest or social canker; he believes instead that "the desire to alter consciousness periodically is an innate, normal drive analogous to hunger or the sexual drive...