Word: onwardness
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...Francisco's Haight-Ashbury district gained dubious fame as a doped version of Fort Lauderdale, complete with acidheads, amphetamine freaks, pot lovers and a sizable sprinkling of good old American paranoids. Until late 1967, some credulous observers believed that American youth, led ever onward by psychedelic visions from the best LSD ever produced, was on the brink of making some sort of cultural breakthrough. In truth, however, the Haight had by that time become a transcendental sewer...
...with 11,000 books; inmates are allowed to publish their own magazine, complete with girlie pictures, which they get from the Armed Forces Press Service. Since Domina took over last July, the chapel services have changed as well. "How can you expect a 20-year-old to listen to Onward, Christian Soldiers!" asks Domina. Last month Portsmouth enjoyed its first folk mass...
...Sabha, the lower house of Parliament, her New Congress Party was assured of 339 and stood a chance of winning enough for a two-thirds majority when all the ballots were counted. Said Indira's Finance Minister Y.B. Chavan: "The mandate is very clear for the onward march of the people to socialism...
...priest included, turns up on the beach to help the gallant militants gather guns and dynamite. It is the very picture of a spontaneous uprising-capped, when O'Leary's truck sticks in the sand, by the masses putting their shoulder to the wheel and impelling the Leninist vanguard onward. One must, after all, come from the people as well as go to them. This vanguard, unluckily, makes it only as far as the top of the hill, where it is met by the major with a full complement of rifles and mortars...
...simply unable to cope with it, Americans by the thousands are seeking alternatives. One that has most captured the imagination of youth and that has an almost religious appeal to members of the counterculture is a family structure that is as old as antiquity: the commune. Utopians from Plato onward have visualized children as not being raised in traditional families but in various communal organizations; the instinct that pulls man toward a tightly knit "nuclear" family has often been counterbalanced by the dream of escaping from...