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...Francisco State College's famed Semanticist S. I. Hayakawa has no illusions. When ETC., the quarterly review of the International Society for General Semantics, devoted a special issue to LSD and other psychedelic drugs, Editor Hayakawa chose a few acid words for acid heads. Wrote he: "Most people haven't learned to use the senses they possess. I not only hear music, I listen to it. I find the colors of the day such vivid experiences that I sometimes pound my steering wheel with excitement. And I say, why disorient your beautiful senses with drugs and poisons before...
...shocks the rest of the world. There is the ten-city tour of Europe in two weeks, the stand-up lunch, the precooked frozen dinner, the disposable dress, the phone call instead of a letter, the formal invitation sent by telegram. There is even, for some, instant bliss through LSD. The U.S. is running an economic fever trying to end poverty and pollution, put a man on the moon and end the war in Viet Nam all at once. Is this bad? Social Ethics Professor Roger L. Shinn of Union Theological Seminary thinks that it "makes us unfortunately Faustian...
Nettling Truth. Eventually it begins to dawn on young Fist that, despite his unholy deal, he is as dissatisfied and disorganized as ever. Chum Breed tries to remedy that by feeding him a capsule of LSD. Fist kicks his inhibitions to tatters and even makes a nightmarish descent into Hell. That does it. When he recovers, Fist breaks his contract with the Devil and gladly opts for "the real world, crummy...
...spirited university students, who called themselves the Provos (meaning provokers). They came out emphatically against the monarchy, Germans, capitalism, Dutch society in general, and had a number of ingenious notions about how to louse up the official rites. They talked of spiking the city's water supply with LSD, hiring a frogman to emerge from a canal near the parade route and explode a bomb containing anti-Orange leaflets, even releasing a pack of white mice to stampede the horses drawing the princess' seven-ton golden wedding coach...
...Leary began a program of experimentation with "consciousness-expanding" chemicals. Harvard got rid of him two years later, after 400 subjects had received 3,500 doses of psilocybin. But that was just the beginning of a wave of irresponsible experimentation and just plain playing around with the more potent LSD that is fast becoming a major problem not only among oddball cultists and kick-seeking college students, but among high school and prep school students as well (TIME, March 11). Last week, in the U.S.-Mexico border town of Laredo, Texas, Leary finally got his comeuppance...