Word: giving
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Albee's play has packed every performance since; it still touches off the same responses. To American eyes, the Czechs give Albee's Westchester an oddly Viennese aspect; the impression is compounded of walnut-and-fringed-lamps Gemütlichkeit and the beard of the leading actor, which makes him look exactly like Sigmund Freud. But the play in Prague compares well with productions elsewhere. It is done with subtlety and panache as well as political relevance. These also happen to be the chief characteristics of Prague's extremely vital and varied theater...
Drug users insist that marijuana, amphetamines, LSD and other psychedelic agents give them pleasure, a euphoric "high" and a marvelous expansion of consciousness. A growing body of medical data suggests that they are kidding themselves on all these counts. Psychiatrists and psychologists are coming to the conclusion that potheads and acidheads do not turn on simply for pleasure and thrills, but in a futile attempt to escape profound depression; that if they get high, it is only in an ecstatic defense; and that they do not wind up with an expanded consciousness but with a decidedly contracted...
...marijuana penalties would be reduced for two reasons: 1) they are so harsh as to make the law unenforceable, and 2) there is still no conclusive proof that the drug is harmful. The professionals were disappointed. The only softening of the penal code proposed by the Administration was to give federal judges the option of putting a first offender on probation, after which, in case of good behavior, his record could be expunged...
Forbidden Fruit. Psychiatrists and other physicians who favor a different approach consider attempts to enforce prohibition of marijuana to be self-defeating; such efforts, they argue, give the drug the appeal of forbidden fruit. They believe, moreover, that the imposition of penalties for possession, or even use, makes criminals of ordinary young people who are carried away by a simple urge for experimentation. These are moderate reformers, who do not advocate abolition of laws against importation or sale of marijuana, and who offer no defense whatever for LSD or other "hard" drugs...
Some of the athletes give non-athletes an assist in business. The Cleveland-based Black Economic Union, founded four years ago by ex-Fullback Jim Brown and some of his Browns teammates, has offices in six cities to help blacks find jobs, business advice and capital. Brown, who worked off-season promoting Pepsi-Cola before he went to Hollywood, thinks that the next goal will be to encourage black businessmen to sell common stock and build large public corporations. "The black businessman does not want to give up 10% of his stock," Brown says. "He does not quite understand what...