Word: grass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...exclaims, call him "Charley"), who reports in his book, The Greening of America (currently churning off the Random House presses at a rate of 15,000 a week), that the machinery of Corporate America is destroying itself and that we should all await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the sidewalk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Collin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...
...Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...
...wind was blowing steadily from the northwest at 25 m. p. h. with gusts of 35 m. p. h. Harvard coach John Yovicsin tested the wind just before game time by throwing a clump of grass into the air. After swirling around his head seven times, the grass blew up into the colonnade...
...since they are placed next to eroding bronze containers dating from 1090. And in Lake and Mountains at Daybreak, Summer, an early 19th century painting of the literary style, one can see how Van Gogh borrowed from the Japanese method of using rows of short vertical lines to illustrate grass or fields...
According to the report, "in classroom discussions, students felt that upward of 50 to 75 per cent of their classmates had used marijuana." When ballots were counted. however. only 18 per cent admitted to having smoked grass one or more times. "The use of other stimulants, depressants, or drug derivatives was insignificant," the report added. "Only three of the 274 students polled claimed they had used...