Word: dosing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nature backfires when he becomes irrevocably Opale, irretrievably evil, Cordelier has a realization before his suicide that gives his tormented life some meaning: he learns that his Jeckyll-Hyde transformations have not altered his soul, as they had his appearance and personality. When Opale takes the last deadly dose of the antidote that returns him to his former state, he knows that though he found misery, not joy, in his attempt, his soul had not been submerged in depravity, and will remain immortal when stripped of the polluted body...
Just as the Government should replace cant with candor, so the dissenters need a strong dose of realism and responsibility. Among the great legal lessons of the civil rights movement, for example, is the rule that a demonstration must be reasonably related to a specific target of protest. Demonstrators who glorify the Viet Cong, burn flags or draft cards, urge the world in general to "make love, not war," are indulging in dissent for dissent's sake. They are staging a mindless happening devoid of rational ideas...
Freshman reaction to House selection ranged as usual yesterday from "perfectly satisfied" to unquotable rage, with a considerable dose of "who cares...
Senelick himself succeeded in playing a septeginarian by chucking the canon of conventional old-man tricks and reinforcing his performance with large doses of pathos, building up a resistance in his audience so that he could administer the biggest dose of all in his death scene. He stunned the house by weaving, choking, and spitting out a farewell mouthful of blood...
Another observed effect of L.S.D. is a reduction in responsibility-that is, the individual's judgment is impaired. In our judgment now, after a careful study of the effects of L.S.D., we consider it inadvisable for an individual who takes even one dose of L.S.D. to make a major decision about himself for at least three months...