Word: doped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Actually, such a request for dope is not all that uncommon in the music world. "A major star brings in millions to a record company," explains one radio program director. "If he says he wants some drugs, it's hardly surprising that they try to keep him happy...
...like to have our policemen be like trees and only be there when the students need them," Hall says. "Hell, I don't care what the students do. If they want to smoke dope or something I just want them to be able to do it without some guy coming to their door with...
...world of fragments. The novels are built out of too much plot and too many characters; they provide quantities of information far beyond anyone's desire to be informed. They are full of technical disquisitions of differential calculus, organic chemistry, the history of film, jazz and rock, dope and Freud, the Holy Grail, rockets, the Wizard of Oz -- all Pynchon metaphors for the twentieth century. It is not that he is groping for the one correct metaphor to one consistent reality. He is compiling as many metaphors as he can for as many realities as he sees...
...parody or the kind of halfway realism that takes place in the suburbs of reality. But Pynchon and Updike, in their last books, have thrown themselves into the ugly, unpoetical stuff of this society in these times. They are making novels out of sex and racism, hamburger stands, dope dealing, babysitting and used cars, moon shots and television sets...
...cannot understand why everyone is so excited about these pages. They portray a party -- different aspects of a party. Parties are one aspect of life here. If you keep that in mind, you might have a chance of understanding this section. People at Harvard and Radcliffe drink, they smoke dope, they dance, they play chess, occasionally they pass out on a couch, and they make love. What is the problem? Put it in a yearbook, and everyone gets upset. Sex is part of life here, and anyone who denies it is being naive. Does it belong in a yearbook...