Word: ratted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...course Wolfe must pay a price for such dexterity. Since every character he recreates speaks with an equal force, the author's particular vantage point remains frustratingly ambiguous. In only one section of The Acid Test--a digression on the Rat aesthetic of the Southwest--does Wolfe permit himself to be unequivocally "satirical." Most of the time, he is simply too busy loving what he criticizes to be really vindictive...
...Rat Control...
...wife and two daughters. He does his muscle-toning exercises, thrives on health foods and sleeps on a mattress reinforced with wooden planks. In this atmosphere, the colorful George Archer unfolds. "I love the peace and quiet of the ranch," he says. "The rest of the world is a rat race...
...study. Meanwhile, we who would be told about LSD must rely on books written by terrified people. The most apolitical and therefore potent threat waved before would-be acidheads is chromosome breakage. An experiment run a long time ago in a leaky warehouse in Buffalo found that one rat in ten got broken chromosomes after swimming in LSD, but it was later discovered that the microscopes used in the experiment were warped. Nonetheless, the authorities had all the ammunition needed. Their rumors drowned out the whispers of those who knew like an irresistible force running over a paper bag. They...
...what we do. Our response to this dual nature may take the radical form of blaming corporate power for the evil we live, but this is often self-deluding and hopelessly illogical. In one scene of Greetings, a man is selling an underground newspaper called "The Rat" and he is shouting out to passers-by, "You've seen the Empire State building and the Colonial Theater. Well man, that proves it. That's where this country...