Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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According to Noyes, that kind of experience is not unlike the mystical states of consciousness sometimes brought on by LSD. He suggests, therefore, that one way for scientists to find out more about what it is like to die is to study what happens to people when they take drugs...
They warned that Harvard people were likely to be freaks and "remember, seven out of every ten girls who took LSD for the first time didn't like it." The Yale man, on the other hand, was given the ultimate compliment. He was described as "cool...
...impulse toward violence or mayhem. In fact the drug induced a condition of general torpor. Another group of 115 heavy users had severe psychotic (schizophrenic) reactions; of them, only three had stuck to hash exclusively, while 112 sought to enhance their highs with multiple drugs-hashish plus alcohol, LSD (acid) or amphetamines...
Since then, Harrington, 53, has sampled and written about many varieties of American life. He worked for a time in the public relations department of a gigantic corporation (Life in the Crystal Palace), and he indulged in the New York LSD scene (The Secret Swinger). Throughout his adventures-he has now taken refuge with a wife and two children in an adobe cottage near Tucson, Ariz.-he has remained obsessed with the vision of Dr. Modesto, that we all live in the conditions stated by Falconbridge in King John: "Mad world! Mad kings! Mad composition...
...future of fate." On closer examination, how ever, they turn out to be merely incipient Snow men, i.e., earnest, solemn, long-winded committee members. Once more, then, Snow's plot hinges on the rather academic question: Who casts a deciding vote? The answer comes with a dash of LSD and a mysterious death by defenestration. But it is delivered in a style that is not so much prose as prosaic. At the end, Snow's hero decides to get married and bore from within society. With typical felicity, he concludes: "Some feelings were simpler, compulsorily simpler, than until...