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Fearful that forces guarding the Pentagon would spray them with Mace, the hippies concocted a counterspray called lysergic acid crypto ethylene (LACE). Purportedly a purplish aphrodisiac brewed by the flipped-out pharmacist of hippiedom, Augustus Owsley Stanley III, LACE "makes you want to take off your clothes, kiss people and make love." Other hippie plots included jamming gun barrels with flowers and an attempt to "kidnap L.B.J. while wrestling him to the ground and pulling his pants off. We will attack with noisemakers, water pistols, marbles, bubble-gum wrappers and bazookas. Sorcerers, swamis, priests, warlocks, rabbis, gurus, witches, alchemists, speed...
John Crowe Ransom says that Jarrell wore a "triple crown"-"a pure Pity, an embracing Weltschmerz, and a wry ironic Wit." The pity sometimes seemed absent from his own reviews. Alfred Kazin recalls a sideswipe in which Jarrell wrote that some crypto poet's work had "hidden treasures," but that finding them was "like looking for the gold in sea water." This sort of wit provided the sparkle to his otherwise brackish novel, Pictures from an Institution...
Died. Konni Zilliacus, 72, maverick of the British left and longtime (1945-50, 1955-67) Member of Parliament, a World War I émigré from the U.S. who saw himself as the Labor Party's socialist conscience and was regarded by many others as a crypto-Communist, treating the House of Commons to such rabidly proSoviet, anti-American, anti-British sentiments (including attacks on Labor Leaders Clement Attlee and Hugh Gaitskell) that in 1949 and in 1961 he was suspended from the party; of leukemia; in London...
...Renowned mathematician, logician, philosopher and Nobel prizewinner, he writes English with all the precision and lucidity of which the language is capable. Yet for all its clarity and wit, the first volume, instantly acclaimed in England as a classic, leaves unresolved problems of character. To some, he is a crypto-mystic, to others, a heartless brain. Most recently he has become an excessively emotional organizer of peace marches who mouths anti-American propaganda drivel...
...Crypto-Communist. An aristocrat by birth and education (Oxford), he is also one of Scotland's leading socialists. Although MacLeod was chosen as Moderator of his church in 1957-the sixth member of his clan to hold the office-many of his fellow Presbyterians grumble that he is either a crypto-Communist or a Roman Catholic in disguise...