Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...flamboyant costumes, strange puns for people's names (like Stark Naked, or Mal Function, or Black Maria), new words (like "bummer"--a term borrowed by Kesey from the Hell's Angels), and mixed psychedelic happenings (with the difference that at Kesey's happenings--The Acid Tests--you were served LSD...
Whether Kesey is in fact responsible for all this is, I think, a moot point. But he was taking LSD in late 1959, "a full two years," as Wolfe says, "before Mom&Dad&Buddy&Sis heard of the dread letters and clucked because Drs. Timothy Leary and Richard Alpert were french-frying the brains of Harvard boys with...
...their number such people as Neil Casady (Dean Moriarity of Kerouac's On the Road), and many other luminaries. Their mission was to freak out each other and the straights. Their tools were colorful clothes, painted faces, odd expressions, strange names for each other, and the secret weapon, LSD...
...synthehippie might make a passable reduction, were it not for the ignorance of its creators (many moviehippies expound at length on the differences between acid and LSD), and the aura of creeping Barry Goldwaterism expressed in (as far as I can detect) the first pejorative use of the word "love." When a moviehippie says he just wants to wander around loving everything in sight, we can almost always detect the tone of a lurking scriptwriter at some pains to imply that the sonofabitch ought to get off the streets and earn a decent living. Moviehippies are often surprisingly well...
Nearly 8,000 people have paid $24 for a year's subscription. In the first issue last week, a "Combat Exclusive" revealed that hippies had poured a "fortune in LSD into reservoirs" with the hope of turning on the Democratic Convention. But their plans fizzled out, said Combat, when the chlorinated water neutralized the LSD. An item more colorful than correct, since there are no reservoirs in Chicago, and the LSD would have had no effect anyway. Combat also found it significant that Eldridge Cleaver, a Black Panther who is the presidential candidate of the Peace and Freedom Party...