Word: fad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidence is lacking about marijuana's harm to normal people. He cites unpublished research that suggests that LSD may be no more dangerous genetically than caffeine, aspirin or other drugs. But he warns against "street drugs" with their impurities, has little good to say about amphetamines, inveighs against fad diets and fasting and harangues his readers to get VD checkups. Freedom demands responsibility, he says, so: "Do your thing-but only if it does not harm yourself or others...
...most bewildering of all is the current hunger for black cookery. Soul food, Southern Negro cooking that was born in the slave quarters and is based on ingredients that the plantation owner ordinarily would not have on his table, has become a fad in U.S. dining...
...overcooked and underseasoned. Vegetables are boiled with fatback for so long that their taste and nutritional value go up in steam; meats have to be sprinkled liberally with salt and pepper to give the eater anything to remember them by. Considering the tastelessness of the cuisine, the soul-food fad seems certain to be fairly short-lived. For many Negroes, it is long since over; it ended, in fact, as soon as they could afford better food. "Let white folks eat hocks and collards," says a black Manhattan stockbroker. "I'll take a rare steak and French fries...
...Among fad-following drug users, the initials of the day are THC. They stand for tetrahydrocannabinol, the chemical compound that is the active ingredient in marijuana, hashish and all other psychedelic drugs derived from Indian hemp. In other words, THC is the kicker in the high...
...firsthand look at the living art. Reisner, who systematically began scrutinizing lavatory walls four years ago and has published two paperback collections of graffiti, believes that the golden age of the graffito is here. In addition to the wit on washroom walls, there is the contemporary lapel-button fad, which he describes as "walking graffiti." The fact is, says Reisner, that "graffiti may be the only creative outlet for some adults...