Word: pots
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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MILTON HEBALD-Nordness, 831 Madison Ave. at 69th. Sometimes tender, sometimes turgid figurative sculpture by a classically inspired New Yorker who lives in Rome. At best, Hebald's pot-bellied centaurs, lovers lounging in urnlike bathtubs, and fountain topped by the refugees on Noah's Ark (including a brontosaur that presumably fell overboard) are full of frivolous immediacy. Through...
...purist and patriot, Linguist Etiemble has declared war against Franglais, the pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
...idea that pot smokers are "wild youngsters looking for kicks" does not hold up. It may apply to those smoking for the first time, or to those who smoke rarely, but it does not explain regular smokers. The idea that smoking is an escape makes more sense. When a person is "high," good things may seem better, problems may seem less pressing, and he may derive pleasure and amusement from unexpected sources. One man said, "I'd like to stay high twenty-four hours a day, but I guess if I did, I'd never get anything done...
However important the desire to escape may be, it seldom provides the principal conscious motivation for using marijuana. Smokers find that "pot" does not merely reduce or remove the negative effects of the outside world, but that it has great positive effects of its own. People get a sense of well-being or happiness when they are "high" that does not have to be seen in contrast to their more depressed sober moments...
...company and settings in which the experience can be "really beautiful." Different people prefer to listen to oriental music or jazz, to look at paintings or simply to walk the streets. In any case, the experienced smoker adjusts his mental attitude to get the greatest possible effect from his "pot...