Word: mushroomed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...knowledge and thus gaining membership as a sorcerer, is to "see." "Seeing," in Don Juan's system, means experiencing the work directly, grasping its essence, without interpreting it. Castaneda's second book, A Separate Reality, describes Don Juan's efforts to induce him to "see" with the aid of mushroom smoke. Journey to Ixtlan, though many of the desert experiences it recounts predate Castaneda's introduction to peyote, datura and mushrooms, deals with the second stage: "seeing" without drugs...
...methadone maintenance. Their success helped make maintenance a preferred U.S. method of rehabilitation. Already some 60,000 of the country's 600,000 addicts are being treated at 460 public and private clinics in 40 states; another 30,000 are on waiting lists. As use widens, problems mushroom, and critics have begun to remind advocates that heroin itself, when it was discovered in 1898, was touted as a desirable alternative to morphine...
Ultimately Stern and Romanoff plan to hire a glass blower who will create fixtures to order. The first orders have already begun to roll in. "A man who collects things with mushrooms called and said he's been thinking for years of a neon mushroom," says Stern. "We told him we'd make him one and he's ecstatic...
...said, were disappointing. Synthetic drugs from European and American pharmaceutical companies have already made their way into most Indian cultures. Weil reported that drug injections have become a very popular remedy for illness, for the Indians ascribe the same magic to the needle that they once attributed to mushroom and herb...
...restaurants are ready to please (or displace, as the case may be). Chez Jean (1 Shephard St.) has very fine French food, considerably better than Chez Dreyfus (44 Church St.) But Dreyfus attracts many distinguished Harvard faculty members and administrators, including President Bok, who eats chopped sirloin with mushroom sauce there on most working days...