Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...result of treating religion as the opium of the people is that, like the dope traffic, it goes underground and thrives. A glimpse of this Russian underground was visible last week when Communist authorities announced a double haul netting several makers and pushers of religious objects, whose private manufacture is forbidden...
...concrete, air conditioning and smog. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry had an impassioned answer. Man's great new gift was the earth, seen from the air. "Saint-Ex" despised the age, but accepted its gift with a mystical joy. He reacted to flight as Coleridge did to opium, with occasionally calamitous results, and wrote of the air-in Night Flight, Flight to Arras and Wind, Sand and Stars-better than anyone since...
Buick Electra Playhouse (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). The series dramatizing the works of Ernest Hemingway continues with The Gambler, the Nun and the Radio. The 1933 story of a wounded man in a Montana hospital, in which Hemingway makes one of his rare philosophical observations: "Bread is the opium of the people." With Richard Conte, Eleanor Parker...
Jazz and dope often seem as closely linked as their jargon; e.g., the jazz terms "hip" and "hipster" are derived from opium smoking, during which the addict lies on one hip. Such famed hipsters as Gene Krupa, Thelonius Monk and the late Billie Holliday had their public problems with dope, and the jazz trade has long refused to book some big-name combos into cities where drugs are known to be hard to get. To find out just how far jazz and dope play hand in hand, Manhattan Psychologist Charles Winick interviewed 357 jazz musicians on the habits of some...
...opium smoker, Nixon was already drafting specific planks in a program that will stress many of the same ends of national well-being proclaimed by his Democratic opponents but will emphasize voluntary, nonfederal means. Items...