Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco's North Beach and Los Angeles' Venice West, make much of their loud vows of poverty. To be poor, yak the shirtless ones as they sit scratching in store-front espresso halls, is to be holy, man, holy. But last week, the mendicants of marijuana and mad verse were in the somewhat embarrassing position of monks whose liqueur sells too well. Tourists were snapping up their stuff like Chinese back-scratchers, and the beatniks were starting to rake in the dough...
...live in a small, unnamed Southern town-and occasionally travel out from it. Their various roads to maturity are those of the whole world: love and labor, passion and violence are part of the process; so are dreams of the past, dreams of the future and dreams induced by marijuana and stronger "mainline" stuff. Many of the stories deal with the eternal masculine tension between sex and love. Writes Anderson in "Signifying," a tale of a pretty young Philadelphia schoolteacher who has come to teach in a small southern town where the "mens . . . ain't wolves, Jackson, them...
Price of Admission. In San Diego, police granted Willie Reuben's request to be put in jail when he handed over five marijuana cigarettes...
...Marijuana Fudge. The old nostalgia is sometimes dangerously near burning down as Kanin writes of the antic hey-hey, but the mood is so pleasant and pervasive that the bemused reader is willing to forgive Author Kanin for taking a few choruses too many. The people are alive-the pretty French girl who collects jazz and jazzmen, the frazzlewit bass player who concocts a marijuana fudge...
...coolies would really quiver. Duke knows, if he could burn down a few Wolves in the next rumble. But he needs a piece (gun), and the local dealer in hot goods is asking too much bread (cash). Duke is forced to take a job. Says the local marijuana wholesaler: "I look forward to the time when there be men of wisdom in Washington & I can provide my Staff with the Blue Cross & vacations with pay ... Oh if we was legal Lad. If ony we was legal like the other cigarette companies. Every year I'd plow back one percent...