Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...working together and accepting one another, but Jesus Christ, in his three-year term, pushed it much harder and stronger. Here in America, we have a heritage of hymn-singing, churchgoing Christianity, but I think the age demands that we start acting like Christians or go to pot...
...them, that I was giving them no lies, that I was not one of the programmed society." Last year he spent a week with the experimental Living Arts Program in the Dayton, Ohio, public schools, teaching youngsters of different ages and talking to them about Viet Nam, rock, sex, pot, religion, race. To a group of music haters, he explained that Bach must have had a lot of sex to have 20 children. That kind of approach, says Hollander, at least jarred some of the kids out of their ennui. What is more, they usually stuck around to hear...
...teaches emotionally disturbed children, Hollander lives in a brick-walled flat five flights up in Greenwich Village. There is a hippie commune next door, and Hollander admits to sharing some of its ideals. He is in favor of "opening up," talks about "the new awareness" and believes that pot should be legalized. In a few weeks, he will give the first classical recital at Manhattan's leading rock palace, the Fillmore East...
Kefta Lunch. "The hippies come here for the pot, of course," says a young visitor from New York-and indeed Morocco is a hashhead's delight. Kif, raw leaf marijuana, is openly (although illegally) sold for $4.50 a pound and widely smoked in public in clay pipes that can be bought for 100 a dozen in any souk, or shop. With or without the assistance of kif, Morocco is a delight. In winter, a venturesome visitor can swim in the morning off the beach at Essaouira on the Atlantic, lunch on kefta (skewered minced steak with herbs) in Marrakesh...
...after the exciting pot-lighting, things get boring. Boring and cold. From 2 a.m. until 5 the smudgers have no specific duties except to make sure that overheated pots don't explode. Taking a fatalistic approach to this job ("if a pot's gonna explode, it's gonna explode and there's nothing I can do about it so I might as well not get myself killed looking for it"), the smudgers usually try to get some sleep. That's not too easy to do. If one of the smudgers has forgotten how dirty everything in the groves...