Word: lsd
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell you one thing, Dave, and anybody else who's listening: you can really get messed up on that stuff." The "stuff" was LSD, and the words were spoken into a tape recorder last year by Craig Gardner, a University of Utah honor student, just a few hours before he drove into the Wyoming countryside and shot himself between the eyes. Craig's warning about the hazards of LSD, addressed chiefly to his roommate Dave Bizak, is beginning to reach a far wider audience. It is incorporated into the sound track of a new educational film that shuns...
...Maynard Clark and Arthur Miller of Princeton, NJ. They acquired the tape by chance and set out to learn more about Craig by interviewing his relatives and friends. Then they filmed the apartment he had shared with Dave (and where he had begun experimenting with marijuana before moving to LSD). They also worked in some of the Gardner family snapshots and home movies and added some moving comments by Craig's younger sister Gayle...
Finally the celebrant, too, is overcome by doubt. He strips off his priestly garb, smashes the holy vessels, and dances madly on the altar like a curate on a bad LSD trip. As he lashes out and people look at him, he shouts angrily, "What are you staring at? Haven't you ever seen an accident?" But his inner state has been defined earlier when he sings: "My spirit falters on decaying altars and my illusions fail." Bernstein's own idea of Communion is achieved at the finale when the entire cast begins to exchange embraces and kisses...
...Drugs, drugs, drugs! The Jesus Freaks have switched from pot and LSD to the opiate of the masses...
...parade through the Loop, gathering people as they went. "Chicago police, we love you!" they shouted to cops along the route. "Jesus loves you!" Blessitt also passed a box through the crowd, asking for a special contribution: drugs. The box came back filled with marijuana, pills and LSD; it was turned over to the flabbergasted cops. This month, Blessitt is really testing Jesus' power. He is in New York City for a three-month blitz among the pimps, prostitutes and porno shops of Times Square for which he hopes to recruit as many as 3,000 young helpers...