Word: smokings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Philip noted that the majority of heavy users seem to have an excessive share of the narcissism generally equated with adolescents. In fact, their pot parties represent a sort of collective, community narcissism: "They congregate in groups to smoke pot, but as soon as they 'turn on' and are 'stoned,' each is alone, absorbed with himself." While they talk about freedom of expression and new avenues of selfdiscovery, Philip found, in most of the cases he has seen at Columbia University, "the student appears to be driven by motivations beyond his conscious awareness and control...
...straddle motorcycles instead of horses, and they smoke marijuana instead of tobacco. But the central characters in Easy Rider are as remote as the freedom they are seeking. Wyatt (Peter Fonda) is a vague, unshaven pothead who likes to refer to himself as "Captain America." His manic sidekick Billy (Dennis Hopper) has a droopy Stephen Crane mustache and shiny eyes fixed on some wild interior vision. Flush from the profits of dope selling, the cyclists symbolically cast off their wristwatches and head for that persistent American symbol of adventure, The Road...
...expect that soon you will be publishing smoke-room stories; but if and when you do, please check with me. I believe there are only 18 basic ones-so don't overdo...
...Seeping Smoke. Even the act of seeing an emergency is surprisingly difficult, Darley and Latane point...
...Smoke seeping from a building may mean a fire or a broken steam pipe; a man sprawling in a doorway may be having a heart attack, or may be just sleeping off a bender. In trying to decide whether a situation is critical, the researchers say, "a person often looks at those around him to see how he should react himself. In general, it is considered embarrassing to look overly concerned, to seem flustered, to 'lose your cool.' A crowd can thus force inaction on its members by implying, through its passivity and apparent indifference, that an event...