Word: dope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...drug which figured in this first disqualification in Derby history was Phenylbutazone, which, ironically, is as far from the "dope" that the Record American immediately labelled it, as owner Peter Fuller '46 is from Mafia leader Raymond Patriarcha. "Bute" is the equine equivalent of aspirin, a simple pain-killer which is widely used by veterinarians and has no stimulating effects. Its use was legal until several years...
...Waiting for the End, in which he announced that society's basic malady was a weariness with traditional humanism. He assessed man's efforts to achieve salvation through political ideology and art, and concluded that the U.S. had begun to shift from a whisky culture to a dope culture. In 1964 this was not prophetic vision but alert reporting. He took an extra step, however, by describing the spread of marijuana, peyote and the synthetic mind benders as "the red man's revenge." The Return of the Vanishing American, an examination of the development of the American...
...School of Music. In an effort to enlarge its cramped 28.5-acre campus, Columbia since 1963 has acquired nearly $30 million worth of property on the Heights, including 73 low-rent apartment buildings and houses and nearly 20 cheap "S.R.O." (single-room occupancy) hotels, some littered with prostitutes and dope peddlers. By cleaning up the worst of the rooming houses, Columbia has helped cut down the Heights' horrifying crime rate. Nonetheless, its real estate acquisitions have been attacked at various times by no fewer than 70 neighborhood organizations, many of which accuse the university of a "racist" plot...
Robert Lantz's clients include such writers as James Baldwin, such occasional writers as Leonard Bernstein and non-writers as Mike Nichols. Lantz is particularly adept at movie roles. "You have to know the territory," he explains. "You must know the real dope -who is hot, who are the bankable elements of a deal, who has the ear of an important star or director. Everything is interrelated. Every work of art can be commercially exploited, can go into anything, become anything...
Phil Rizzuto calls it "Sports Time." Bob Marshall called it "The Sports Dope." Arthur Daley "Sports of the Times" and the current resident of the cubicle at 14 Plympton St. tries "Sports of the Crime." Whatever it is, you may one day have a chance to try it yourself. But only if you come to 14 Plympton St. tonight at 7:30 or tomorrow to sample the Crimson's introductory meetings. Coke, beer and a chance to meet the men who chronicle the Leos, Gattos and Nayars of Harvard sports. Not to mention the Bakers, Gallaghers...