Word: doped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that you have "essayed" a catalogue of the smuttiest books, why not follow up with "How to Murder Mysteriously," "Where to Buy Burglar Tools," "Dope, Drugs and Where to Obtain Them," "How to Become a Lady of Easy Virtue," "Easy Methods of Paying Taxes...
...hypothetical public issue-the ecclesiastical investigation into the life of a possible saint-as backdrop to the private spiritual agony of a middle-aged monsignor dying of cancer. Then West began to tinker dangerously with the balance between private and public; his novels increasingly seemed to offer the inside dope about decisions of state, competing for the attention due the internal truths of spiritual life. The Shoes of the Fisherman was published at the time of the election of Paul VI; its hero is a middle-aged archbishop who becomes Pope, and before the novel is done, his intimately described...
...came with a statuesque 23-year-old divorcee named Simone Boullin. Chocolates, toes, seduction-and poor Simone had ridden past her stop. Instead of disappearing, as was his practice, Huu gallantly accompanied her to a hotel room in Le Fayet to comfort her while she recovered from the dope. There she managed to notify police, who found a loaded bonbon in Huu's pocket and locked...
...drugstore, on sales of barbiturates ("goofballs") and amphetamines. Illicit sales of such drugs to persons under 21 could be punished by two years in prison and a $5,000 fine, v. one year in prison and a $1,000 fine at present. For the narcotics addict who peddles dope mainly to finance his habit, a civil commitment statute under preparation would provide for rehabilitation rather than incarceration. - Halt mail-order sales of firearms to individuals (Lee Harvey Oswald got his assassination weapon through a mail-order house) and restrict the importation of surplus military weapons. - Provide for increased training...
...chronicler of Chicago's Skid Row, a Negro who refused to write about his own race (he once called James Baldwin "a professional Negro"), instead peopled his two best-known novels (Knock on Any Door, Let No Man Write My Epitaph) with a collection of whoring, murdering, dope-addicted slum whites as if to prove that Negroes have no monopoly on crime or misery; of gangrene of the intestines from a neglected infection; in Mexico City...