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...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...
...years. The flower people of the late 1960s, mostly middle-class kids trying to create a gaudy secular religion, have given way to a desperate culture of emotionally troubled rejects, largely from working-class and even ghetto families. Amphetamines, heroin and old-fashioned alcohol have generally replaced pot and LSD; violence has supplanted Aquarian love. Now the area is open to the professional pimp, who uses a combination of terrorism, drugs and ersatz affection to lure confused teen-age girls into prostitution. The teeny-hookers have created a glut on the market, sneers a tough old pro of 20. "They...
...Arica. Among the 50 seekers who made the trip-and paid from $4,000 to $7,000 apiece for the ten-month experience -were artists, housewives, businessmen and a few scientists (among them Dr. John Lilly, the dolphin expert, who had previously tried to achieve higher consciousness on LSD trips). Almost half were disenchanted defectors from Esalen, the encounter center at Big Sur, Calif.; all were searching for the good life, and, under Oscar's tutelage, 42 concluded that they had found it. These survivors established the institute, became its faculty, and launched the first classes last October...