Word: marijuana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Mardou and their ambisextrous and hipsterical pals, the road to fulfillment leads through drink, drugs, jazz. Depending on the point of view, these are seen as evil escape mechanisms to evade reality, or accepted as strange techniques for intensifying reality. Primed with tea (marijuana) or benny (Benzedrine), the "kicks" of ecstasy become the "flips" of madness. Virtually all the characters in The Subterraneans flip. But Author Kerouac has known beat characters to do a reverse flip: "The hero of On the Road is now a normal settled-down adult. He's a railroad conductor with three kids...
...Ronny Graham, a Broadway fugitive (New Faces of 1952) whose delivery is sometimes so shaggy that it is hard to tell which end of his joke is wagging. He mugs through an uproarious monologue on graduation day at a bop school, i.e., a baccalaureate sermon on how to puff marijuana cigarettes without wasting a whiff of those "leftwing Luckies." With poker-faced, evil-eyed Straight Man Gerry Matthews, 26, he delivers a to-the-point parody of TV Torquemada Mike Wallace. The cellar's other mummers are Ceil Cabot, a pout-mouthed Imogene Cocaesque comedienne with a wonderful talent...
...story is set in the late 1940s. told in the first person by Sal Paradise, a budding writer given to ecstasies about America, hot jazz, the meaning of life, and marijuana. The book's protagonist is Dean Moriarty ("a sideburned hero of the snowy West"), who has spent a third of his waking time in poolrooms, a third in jail, a third in public libraries, and is always shouting "Yes, yes, yes!" to every experience. Dean and Sal and their other buddies-Carlo Marx, the frenzied poet; Ed Dunkel, an amiable cipher; Remi Boncoeur, who has the second loudest...
Uber Alles. Near San Francisco, police bagged Drugstore Clerk Haig Terzian for possessing a marijuana cigarette, made a routine check of his property, found: one Mauser pistol, three cases of dynamite and caps, five hand grenades, a tear-gas gun, a smoke bomb, a 4-ft. brass cannon, a Nazi uniform, two swastika banners, 15 unregistered machine guns...
...election eve, his enemies spared no smear in their efforts to unseat able, 43-year-old Mayor Frank Zeidler of Milwaukee. A few days before the election, supporters of Alderman Milton McGuire, Zeidler's opponent, published advertisements (later repudiated by McGuire) which declared that Milwaukee was infested with marijuana and liquor-crazed juveniles and that "hoodlum mobs" ranged the city "with wolf-pack viciousness." Despite this and a whispering campaign that labeled him a "nigger lover" (TIME, April 2), Socialist Zeidler last week won his third consecutive term by a majority of 23,000 votes...