Word: deeps
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Middle Americans who felt abandoned by their own country and its politics. There was poetry, if not logic, in the fact that many voters who would have supported Robert Kennedy switched to Wallace after Kennedy's death. Kennedy and Wallace, so different in most ways, drew from the same deep pools of passion and longing for a voice...
...were seeing visions as the old stumbled into dreamland. To induce transcendence, the children of 1968 borrowed buzzwords from the East: ; karma, Rama, Krishna, om and the sound of one hand clapping. Other equally euphonic names would waken the third eye: marijuana and lysergic acid diethylamide, or LSD. "The deep psychedelic experience is a death-rebirth flip," said Timothy Leary, the great snake-oil salesman of LSD. "There is no death . . . There is just off-on, in-out, start-stop, light-dark, flash- delay." Jailed in San Luis Obispo, Calif., on a marijuana charge, Leary escaped with the help...
Gore and other Democrats say Bush should secure deep cuts in strategic nuclear weapons and embark on an "unprecedented international effort to confront the global ecological crisis...
This long-term planning was overshadowed much of last semester as the dean search drew student and faculty frustrations close to the surface. With a new dean expected to address key issues such as minority groups' calls for greater campus representation and the deep rift between radical and more conservative faculty members, outbreaks of protest marked the Law School scene...
...Friedman, who believe that slow and steady growth of the money supply is the key to prosperity, expected inflation to shoot up when the Federal Reserve suddenly pumped cash into the economy to halt the recession of 1981-82. But inflation failed to ignite because the slump was so deep that it left the economy with plenty of room to grow without pushing up prices...