Word: lightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HERMANN HESSE -- The Nobel Prize - winning German novelist, whose book, The Journey to the East, is an excellent metaphor for the kind of revelation-seeking an acid trip entails. In the book he writes of the pilgrimage: "Throughout the centuries it had been on the way, towards light and wonder, and each member, each group, indeed our whole host and its great pilgrimage, was only a wave in the eternal stream of human begins, of the eternal strivings, of the human spirit towards the East, towards Home. The knowledge passed through my mind like a ray of light and immediately...
...sadness . . . his brain seemed to catch fire at brief moments, and . . . his vital forces were strained to the utmost all at once. His sensation of being alive and his awareness increased tenfold at those moments which flashed by like lightning. His mind and heart wear flooded by a dazzling light. All his agitation, all has doubts and worries, seemed composed in a twinkling, culminating in a great calm full of serene and harmonious joy and hope, full of understanding and the knowledge of the final cause...
Rain was beating down on the skylight. The smell of grass drifted up and down the stairway. The light on the landing was burning, but the man said it had taken eight weeks get it replaced. Action on a complaint of roaches had taken less time--a month and a half. "I think it helped. We haven't had so many lately...
...Rumanian effort is evident at Galati, once a quiet town of peasants and fishermen on the Danube, where the blast furnaces of huge new steel mills now light the night sky. When fully completed next year, the complex will lift the country's annual steel output from 4,400,000 tons to 6,900,000 tons, almost as much as Australia's production and more than Sweden's. Petrochemical plants are rising at Ploeşti, next to Rumania's oil wells, which until recently constituted the country's only significant industry. In conjunction with...
...beware. The increasing short age of good imported wine stocks in the U.S. has encouraged some promoters to foist off cheap and often undrinkable French wines on unsuspecting American customers. One British wine merchant is shipping to the U.S. a vinegary rose named Bourgogne-Chainette, which he touts as "light, dry,refreshing" and "a great rarity." Only the last phrase is accurate. With a magnifying glass and a knowledge of French, the customer will discover that Bourgogne-Chainette is a vineyard on the grounds of the Psychiatric Hospital of L'Yonne...