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...hogs for market. Says Dick Walters: "If one thing fails, you have an opportunity to balance out your loss." Walters' crop mix is typical. He usually grows corn on a particular field for two years, then switches to soybeans for a year. Gone is the ritual slopping of hogs; Erv's animals are fed carefully calibrated mixtures of corn and protein automatically through ducts that connect his silos with the feeding troughs. Absent too are some of the more familiar animals, such as horses and chickens. They are no longer profitable. As son Dan pithily sums...
...high by a regular user. Psychologically, a learning process may be taking place where the user learns to recognize himself as having peculiar sensations and as "having fun" while doing it. The sociogenic aspect of marihuana use-its proliferation in group situations-introduces the sociology of group and ritual participation into the analysis: Grinspoon appends the observation that a shift in attitude favorable to marihuana use usually takes place in ambivalent, mildly opposed, or uncertain individuals after smoking a few times...
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...Americans learned, table tennis has a ritual all its own in China. First, the two teams marched onto the floor and intertwined hands, then they marched off again. But where were the tables? Suddenly, 50 or so Chinese men, women and children dressed in red jump suits danced onto the floor in time to music, carrying the tables and green barrier boards to stop stray Ping Pong balls. Two games were played at a time, and Cowan, who wore a red headband to keep back his hair, was an obvious favorite of the crowd. "We had the impression the Chinese...
Gloria, who changes her name to Witch Gliz while on the ritual lam from Mom's suburban Detroit subdivision, learns by doing and then recording her doings in a breezy diary. Sex, dope, kindness, generosity and communal living are good things because they make her feel good. Fortunately, imminent incest gives off bad vibrations before the big clutch...