Word: prophets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Timothy Leary was fired by Harvard for conducting experiments with undergraduates into LSD. He went on to become the pop prophet of turning on, tuning in, and dropping out. Leary was finally jailed in California on drug charges but escaped earlier this month with the aid of the Weathermen. He sent the following statement to newspapers shortly after his escape. Leary is still free...
...recent trip along the Trucial Coast, TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs attempted to cross Oman's ill-defined northwest border. "I would like to let you pass," said the tall, robed Omani guard, "so you could see the country. It is little changed from the days of the Prophet. Perhaps someone will do something about it soon...
Pifer's literary fancy is a ring of courtesans organized by a shadowy group of sinners to pry cashable secrets out of the military-industrial complex. His hero is a plausible young fastmouth, Tom Habba-kuk-named somewhat pretentiously after a 7th century B.C. minor prophet -who has been recruited to shill for the vestals, as the girls are called. He turns out to be very good...
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY Roger Tory Peterson, D.Sc., ornithologist and author. In a threatened world suddenly aware of its own mortality, you have long been a prophet of the interrelate dness of all living things...
Perhaps the album's most startling moment is hearing the prophet who once sang Masters of War and The Times They Are AChangin' now croon his way like Bing Crosby into a classic from the 1930s...