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...LSD (Capitol) is a documentary of degeneration, with historical data, current statistics, comments from "acidheads" on why they dig the drug, from "travel agents" on why they sell it, and from medical experts on its appalling effects. Against a background of psychedelic music and the hallucinatory laughter of "stoned" kids, the shattering screams of a young man on his 34th trip put into frightening perspective the never-never world of society's dropouts...
...would rather experience a Callas Toscu than an LSD trip. I applaud TIME for daring to like Rudolf Bing and the beautiful new Met [Sept. 23|. It is the latest chic to find the Met somehow appalling or worse, mundane. It is gaudy (so are diamonds). It panders to popular taste-Chagall, really! It is gimmick-run, unexciting, blah, blah, blah. One wonders what could possibly have pleased its critics. But then, who cares...
Parental Wrath. The uninitiated in the nearly full house of 2,500 people are still a little dazed by it all. But the Guide explains. "What we have relived tonight," he says, "is one minute in an LSD session. Visionaries throughout history have made this voyage and come back to teach its truths to the waiting world...
...Guide ought to know. He is Dr. Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor whose experiments with psychedelic drugs aroused such parental wrath that he was dropped from the faculty (TIME, March 29, 1963). Since then, Leary has struck out on a one-man crusade aimed at making LSD and pot as American as apple pie. He is also trying to found a new religion. Death of the Mind is billed as the "first public worship service of America's first indigenous religious movement," the League for Spiritual Discovery. (The initials spell LSD...
Barbiturates and pep pills cannot be made as easily as LSD, but FDA officials rate sales of these drugs as an even more widespread problem. They estimate that ten billion of the pills are sold in the U.S. every year, and that illegal trade on college campuses makes up a major part of the total...