Word: habitations
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somehow affect the midbrain, seat of the intimate interchange between emotional response, awareness of external and internal stimuli, and the sympathetic and parasympathetic nervous systems. Tranquilizers or barbiturates halt LSD's effects, while stimulants like amphetamine tend to elevate them. LSD is no aphrodisiac. It is not physically habit-forming, but it can be psychologically habituating...
...noted American neurologist, Weir Mitchell, chewed some of the mescal buttons of the peyote cactus and reported that he felt "as if the unseen millions of the Milky Way were to flow in a sparkling river before my eyes." He predicted "a perilous reign of the mescal habit when this agent becomes attainable." To some, it seems that the perilous reign has begun-not through Mitchell's bitter buttons but through their enormously more powerful relative, lysergic acid diethylamide...
...this and provide us with a little more time for study and reflection, perhaps we can participate in a more active ways in our own education. Or, as Flexner put it: "With certain obvious exceptions, the particular facts learned, the particular skills acquired, are of less importance than the habit of enquiry, the ability to use the senses, the capacity for well-directed effort...
...short of the increasingly important question: How are we doing there? New York Times Columnist C. L. Sulzberger pointed out last week that "the President clearly has to be more concerned with his role as national leader and less concerned with his liking for national consensus. Consensus has a habit of following success...
...nonsense paper," he adds, "for people who really want to know what's going on in the Roxbury community. We want to be a paper for people who live here, not people who drink here," he adds. And the 20,000 readers who acquired the Banner habit in the last seven months seem to indicate Miller's paper is a welcome addition...