Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bancroft, 38, a husky, tenacious man, tried the psychiatrist's temper during cross-examination but failed to shake his testimony or to attack his credentials successfully. Oddly, the prosecution did not bring up one bizarre episode in West's career: killing an elephant with an overdose of LSD. West was trying to find out why elephants have periods of madness. Bancroft also tried to no avail to show that West was habitually soft on defendants. West did add one interesting point: after Jack Ruby was convicted for killing Lee Harvey Oswald, the psychiatrist was called in to examine...
Certainly, sensitivity to ethical problems in research has grown enormously during the decade since HEW required committee review. If a Leary came to Harvard wanting to experiment with psilocybin or LSD, the CUHS--if it knew of the tests--would certainly interfere, and few would mourn the assault on Leary's academic freedom. "The Committee has raised everyone's consciousness during the last few years," Bales says...
...first abstract painting to be exhibited in Paris. Some of his big abstracts from the '20s, like Around a Point, must be reckoned among the most imposing feats of modern art. And yet the fundamental subject of his work remains inaccessible. It is like hearing someone describe an LSD trip: the cosmic hoo-ha is all there, but the listener cannot experience it in the retelling. Deprived of the heavenly choir of theosophical documents, all too many of Kupka's transcendental visions finish as pattern-not an ignoble fate, but less than he intended...
...Have you ever taken LSD, Eldridge?" Bruce asked...
...Leary is completely crazy. His mind is really fizzled away. He can talk pretty coherently, but what he chooses to talk about is really crazy. Man, Leary was a big problem. Because wherever he'd go, there would be kids following him, kids who he had turned on to LSD. They were coming back to their guru, convinced that he could get their head back together again and no one else could...