Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Blonde Donna Wingenroth was no beatnik "acid head" looking for a trip into the fantastic with LSD. Still, she ate a sugar cube laced with the hallucinogenic drug and had to be taken to the hospital, alternately laughing and screaming hysterically. After a stomach pumping and a few days on intravenous feedings, she recovered. Last week she went home, and her doctors are confident that she has suffered no permanent brain damage. Only five years old, Donna was an innocent victim of the dangerous LSD craze (TIME, March 11); she had found the "candy" cube in the refrigerator...
...Princeton," purrs the guide, "is the only place in the world where, when a boy and his date walk past a mirror, it's the boy who stops to comb his hair." At Harvard girls must beware of the "dope party," which "features LSD as a starter, and anything as a finisher, and lots of great Happenings in between...
...Francisco State College's famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa has no illusions. When ETC., the quarterly review of the International Society for General Semantics, devoted a special issue to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, Editor Hayakawa chose a few acid words for acid heads. Wrote he: "Most people haven't learned to use the senses they possess. I not only hear music, I listen to it. I find the colors of the day such vivid experiences that I sometimes pound my steering wheel with excitement. And I say, why disorient your beautiful senses with drugs and poisons before...
...shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through LSD. The U.S. is running an economic fever trying to end poverty and pollution, put a man on the moon and end the war in Viet Nam all at once. Is this bad? Social Ethics Professor Roger L. Shinn of Union Theological Seminary thinks that it "makes us unfortunately Faustian...
Nettling Truth. Eventually it begins to dawn on young Fist that, despite his unholy deal, he is as dissatisfied and disorganized as ever. Chum Breed tries to remedy that by feeding him a capsule of LSD. Fist kicks his inhibitions to tatters and even makes a nightmarish descent into Hell. That does it. When he recovers, Fist breaks his contract with the Devil and gladly opts for "the real world, crummy...