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...CRIMSON should have suggested that we wait until we see the Chinese threat more clearly lest we pointlessly stir up a U.S. Soviet competition that may be less easily aroused, one can hope in later years. Jeremy J. Stone
...evil principle of the modern world, and time will only serve to disclose this fact with greater and greater clearness. The capacity of the newspaper for degeneration is sophistically without limit, since it can always sink lower and lower in its choice of readers. At last it will stir up all those dregs of humanity which no state or government can control...
Leary, a convert to Hinduism who was fired from the Harvard faculty in 1963 for giving hallucinogenic drugs to students, betrays boyish pride in the stir he has created ("They used to call people like me alchemists or medicine men"). However, he now agrees that LSD can be a danger. He has promised to forgo his own weekly LSD séances for a year, and recommends a similar moratorium for his disciples. Perfectly good hallucinations, he insists, can be had from yoga, movies or music. To prove it, he plans to run a do-it-yourself hallucination school...
...Bone Towser II, his five-year-old St. Bernard. The funds may come in handy for Towser, who picked up some pretty fancy habits from his master. He pads around the mansions wearing a brandy and a créme de menthe keg (in case anyone wants to stir up a stinger), and, explained Clegg, "he does love pâté de foie gras and caviar. He drools terribly if you serve either...
Tough, well-trained Viet Cong agents helped stir the mobs. Yet the demonstrations were directly inspired by a politically astute, professedly anti-Communist Buddhist prelate, Thich (meaning venerable) Tri Quang, a ruthless infighter who has been described by former Ambassador Maxwell Taylor as "the Makarios of Southeast Asia...