Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...movable frame inside the proscenium that makes the stage even smaller than it is, so that it can then be expanded to produce the illusion of large-scale operations. Another nice trick is one pair of panels at stage center that slide open to reveal a Chinese opium den, and still another pair that revolve to present canted mirrors, giving the tiny chorus line something of that old Busby Berkeley thundering herd effect...
...from his literary friends, including Henry James and Joseph Conrad. His brother had to pay to have his body brought home to New Jersey for burial. It was the sort of end most people had predicted for a man who gleefully promoted the false rumor that he was an opium addict, and who married the madam of a Jacksonville sporting house, or at least lived with her. Lionized. In the 68 years since Crane's death, two biographies, a thinly disguised biographical novel, and scores of literary essays have tried to grasp the causes of his failure. This massive...
...opium of the people nowadays seems to be astrology. Just about every U.S. newspaper and women's magazine runs a horoscope column, so eventually the zodiac was bound to cloud over the TV screen. WPIX-TV became the first to capitalize on the astral preoccupation when it began inserting horoscopes into station breaks last January. That feature became so popular that WPIX hired Harper's Bazaar Horoscoper Xavora Pové to turn out a weekly 30-minute series. Miss Pove, an astrology devotee since her days at Sandusky High in Ohio (where she was known as Rosemary Schultz...
...Mikuriya, shows that the drug is not a narcotic in the medical sense. It is not physiologically addicting, so there are no withdrawal pangs. There is little or no buildup of tolerance that would lead to the use of increasing doses, as is the case with the true narcotics-opium, its refined extracts (heroin, morphine' codeine) and their synthetic substitutes. Additionally, Dr. Mikuriya reported, cannabis is so nearly nonpoisonous that to kill one mouse requires 40,000 times the dose that makes a man high. By contrast, 20 times the relaxant dose of alcohol can kill...
...turned up by hippie-clad agents who had been planted on the campus to mingle in Stony Brook's wide-open dormitories. The spies claimed they had taken part in a large LSD party in a dormitory lounge, witnessed many drug sales, mainly of marijuana but also of opium and mescaline. The university's supervision of the dorms was so lax, police charged, that a number of nonstudents seeking kicks had moved right in. Following agent-drawn maps of where suspects lived, surprised raiders barged into one room and found, instead of their target, his sister, her husband...