Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Victor Scott Keppel, 23, a dropout who spent two years on the Avenue before returning seriously to his studies, recalls his hiatus as a fast-moving kaleidoscope of LSD, drinking, faceless girls, and empty days. "The nonstudent life tastes like peanut butter, stale bread and leftover booze," he says. As for sex, "there were a few beatnik chicks that were wailing, but the volume didn't match the myth." At talk sessions, "everybody was very bored and very boring. There was something there, but I couldn't tell what it was. I took a closer look-and found...
...recent study by a teaching fellow in Psychiatry suggests that "psychedelic" drugs like LSD may have a legitimate psychotherapeutic use despite the doubt cast on their value in the past two years...
Fifteen years ago Harvard students drowned their troubles in liquor; last year they took to LSD. Today the get high on Macrobiotics, a brown rice diet said to produce euphoria within two or three days...
...went back to telling us how brown rice was so much safer than drugs. Drugs destroy the nervous system, he said. One Harvard Macrobiotic had taken so much LSD that his nerves became insensitive to starvation pains. Mr. Kushi had tried to save the young man from starving, our friend said; he had diagnosed the student's condition as extreme yang and fed him yin foods. When he died at the Institute a week before Christmas, he weighed 90 pounds, although he was nearly six feet tall. Our friend seemed to accept his death with calm resolve...
...DEFENDERS (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Donald Pleasence stars as a former doctor accused of manslaughter for advocating the use of the hallucinogenic drug LSD...