Word: potted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...students began to ask the dean for a clarification of the University's policy. There were many freshmen who thought that Harvard just looked the other way, like it does with liquor. They thought that since there had been no stories in the Crimson of students punished for using pot or LSD and no mention in the rule book of drugs, that maybe the University didn't mind...
Dean von Stade states that there has been an increase, and some proc- tors who have been in the Yard with other freshman classes have called the rise "enormous." Graham Blaine, chief of psychiatry for the UHS, said in the middle of April that pot use was on the upsurge--a reversal of his appraisal earlier in the year...
...HONEY POT. Writer-Director Joseph Mankiewicz has modernized Ben Jonson's wryly wily miser, Volpone, for the contemporary talents of Rex Harrison, and makes up in witty dialogue what he loses in indecisive wavering between comedy and suspense...
...POVERTY. "Now that there is a chicken in almost every pot, and two or three cars in most garages, how do I explain or justify the one-fourth of our people who do not approach sharing these things...
...funniest episodes, Art Carney demonstrates the simplest way to get away from a wife (Lucille Ball) for an evening with a mistress. He criticizes her cooking ("Pot roast? It tasted more like the pot than the roast!"), waits for her counterattack, then, acting wounded, stomps into the night on the town. In another, Joey Bishop is discovered in flagrante delicto by his outraged mate. "What bed? What girl?" he replies. While his wife shrieks, he calmly cleans up the room, whisks the girl out, then settles down to read in the living room. Faced with his bland denials, the wife...