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Peyote greatly heightens the individual's senses, causing him to react more sharply to sounds, smells, and light. It also distorts his perspective, often making him feel taller than he actually is. Mescalene reportedly incites mild delusions...
...defense expenditures, which represented two-thirds of the budgets, were reduced, stated Flanders, he would be in favor of an immediate tax cut. This would be effected in excise taxes, which react upon individuals. Tax reductions for businesses, he commented, would be better "theoretically, economically, and in every way but politically...
...Sisters Under the Skin. Editors and writers share an evangelical faith that confession stories help their readers to solve their own problems. Gushes a top-selling Denver freelancer: "Lots of girls receive their first experience through these stories. I just know that many of them have learned how to react to love situations through what we write...
...would Negro leaders react if the police staged a mass raid on Negro nightspots to round up suspects? asked Brannon tentatively. To his surprise, the businessmen assured him that they would speak up to defend the police if the Negro community raised an outcry. A few nights later, in Kansas City's biggest police raid since 1941, nine teams of detectives-with at least one Negro cop on each team -stormed into Negro-district bars, restaurants, pool halls, nightclubs. Three paddy wagons shuttled back and forth for three hours, hauling 276 men and three women to headquarters for questioning...
...also suspect that the poem, like the sphinx, speaks only when he expects to hear a voice, and that following the critics will produce only the voice which he has been told he will hear. If he reads a book about which he has heard enough, he can only react in those particular terms. He may reject or accept, but he is within the predetermined framework, which makes the possibility of an important experience slight...