Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gunter Grass, one of Germany's bestknown living writers, told a capacity crowd in Lowell Lecture Hall last night that Harvard is "a comfortable ghetto inside a sick society...
...profound meanings that never quite come out from behind the prose screens). More than any of his 17 previous novels, the story takes off from the workaday world in search of the ineffable. The familiar trappings of Wright's baroque realism turn up: the taste of switch grass and cord grass, the loom of grain elevators, the feel of a kitten dropped by wanton boys into a country-school privy. But the subject is myth. Old, unbelieving, literal-minded Floyd Warner takes on immortal longings. Having defied common sense by taking a herd of sheep and a wife...
Popular Drug. With the A.B.A. behind decriminalization of pot, can the rest of the nation be far behind? Perhaps not. Since 1971 state legislatures across the nation, with the notable exception of Rhode Island, have reduced possession of small amounts of grass from a felony to a misdemeanor. Supporting the trend are prestigious organizations like the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws (lawyers, judges, law professors and state officials who draft model legislation). The American Medical Association favors the misdemeanor penalty for possession in "insignificant" amounts, though it advocates more research on the drug. A National Commission...
...Oregon will become the first state to remove completely criminal penalties for the private possession and use of grass. The new law re-classifies possession of up to one ounce as a "violation," with a maximum penalty of a $100 fine. Offenders will receive no criminal record, in effect making pot smoking no more criminal in Oregon than illegal parking...
...those with allergies, the change is almost catastrophic. "In March, this office just pours over with people having trouble with mulberry pollen," says Tucson Dr. L. Winston Martin. Adds Allergist Dr. Rueben Wagelie: "Bermuda grass thrives in this climate and gives off pollen from February to October." Although the doctors are struggling to alleviate their patients' distress, the only real cure is the one Mrs. Sturgis chose in 1953-flight. The plight of the allergy sufferers arouses little compassion in Jack Taylor, owner of three thriving Tucson nurseries: "The pollen isn't any problem...