Word: opium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have tried marijuana at least once, and that 25% use it regularly once or twice a week. At Berkeley, marijuana has given way to acid, which costs $2.50 per trip v. $2 for a milder marijuana kick. In fact, though, the great majority of Now People shun the traditional opium derivatives-heroin and morphine-because they represent a passive withdrawal from experience. They want their "now" heightened and more meaningful...
N.E.T. JOURNAL (shown on Mondays). "The Opium Trail" shows how the narcotic is grown in the interior of Southeast Asia and then moved to Hong Kong for distribution throughout the world...
More Than Opium. Appropriately, the introduction to that edition was written by Garaudy, the Communist who has probably done more than anyone else to make the dialogue possible. Raised as a Protestant, Garaudy has been a party member for 33 years; in addition to his duties as a member of the French Politburo, he teaches philosophy at the University of Poitiers. Last year Garaudy gained enthusiastic reviews from Christian thinkers with From Anathema to Dialogue (TIME, Jan. 7), a summons to theoretical conversation that was published in the U.S. recently by Herder & Herder, a Catholic firm. A sequel to Anathema...
...underlying premise of the Communist quest for dialogue is that Karl Marx actually was not so ill-disposed toward Christianity as might be supposed from his famous dictum that "religion is the opium of the people." Garaudy argues that this condemnation must be understood as a response to the church's alliance with 19th century Europe's capitalist and authoritarian regimes. Marx and even Lenin, says Garaudy, were careful to distinguish the institutionalized church as they knew it from early Christianity, which was genuinely "revolutionary and democratic in spirit." Moreover, Marx acknowledged that Christianity had raised the right...
...first book in six years, Robbe-Grillet's dreamy act turns round and round a series of tremulously ambiguous scenes set in Hong Kong. There is an American named Ralph Johnson who may really be a titled Englishman or even a Portuguese entrepreneur dealing in hashish, opium and girls. He attends, or thinks he attends, or the narrator thinks he attends, a party given by Lady Ava (or Eva or Eve or Jacqueline) Bergmann at a brothel-or possibly it is a figment of everyone's imagination...