Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...young wag wrote: "Candy/ Is dandy/ But liquor/ Is quicker." Now comes an addendum by Verseman Ogden Nash, 66, for the new generation: "Pot...
...defendant is sentenced to serve one year of Sunday church services." This, in effect, is the improbable verdict frequently handed down in a Miami court, where, for the past 18 months, Metropolitan Court Judge Thomas E. Lee has presented guilty teen-age speeders and pot smokers with the alternatives of a fine, a jail term-or a year of church services. Of the 125 teen-agers offered the choice of sermons or sentences, nearly all have decided to serve a stretch in the pews...
...PAXTON: MORNING AGAIN (Elektra). This is folk without folksiness. Paxton's trimmings may sometimes be countrified or traditional, but in this, his fourth LP, his essence emerges as urban and contemporary. When he writes a talking blues, it is about pot-smoking platoons in Viet Nam who smell "like midnight on St. Marks Place" (in Manhattan's hippie East Village). Appropriately, style and melody take second place in his songs to the compressed sophistication of his lyrics. Somewhat world-weary and very world-wary, they capsule the Paxton mixture of soft sympathies and hard ironies. Among the best...
Adults who have avoided Life or television for three years might learn something from You Are What You Eat and may even be titillated by it. But as long as we can sit at home and have pot, music and sex, who needs...
...took its Oilers to its bosom, inviting them to church suppers and baking pies for them and washing their clothes and giving them room-and-board (all very much appreciated, since a player earned from $150 to $300 a month in Class D). Artistically, the Oilers, a collection of pot-bellied baseball gypsies and frightened teen-agers, were not especially memorable, but the people did not care. In that little ball park next to the railroad tracks and the The World's Largest Peanut Sheller, the town took on an identity and became as big as New York City--especially...