Word: thingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...same manner I also serve as co-chairman of the Harvard Club of Boston School and Scholarship Committee. None of these activities in support of Harvard have anything to do with my decanal duties at the Medical School. Administrative officers, like Faculty, are free to do their own thing. Bayley F. Mason...
...given to the undesirable effect of integration in education, and to the steadily declining percentage of Negroes who are going on the college (although the percentage of black high-school graduates has increased faster than that of whites). In the long view, integration is seen as a good thing, when defined by Howard as "two elements that are different coming together, each making a contribution to a new whole that neither can individually achieve...
...Acid Test, has put into print a lot of the key phrases we used to describe what's happening in the experience (like: 'go with the flow," "synch," "kairos," and "total attention"). Here is Wolfe describing Kesey on one of the first acid trips in history: "The first thing he knew about it was a squirrel dropped an acorn from a tree outside, only it was tremendously loud and sounded like it was not outside but right in the room with him and not actually a sound, either, but a great suffusing presence, visual, almost tactile, a great impacting...
...also clear that this is a defeatist mood which SDS is bringing upon itself for no good reason. There is absolutely no justification for SDS to maintain this posture of defensive, though dignified, elitism. SDS should not adopt the attitude that it is going to do its thing no matter what and the rest of the student body will have to figure out a response as best it can. Rather the emphasis should obviously be on going to the students and attempting to win them over...
...book (The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test) about Kesey's organizing the Merry Pranksters, who crossed the U.S. in a bus with him, and threw huge parties in California with LSD in the Kool-Aid. The book is a milestone in acid literature, and probably the only good thing directly about the experience. Kesey has written Sometimes A Great Notion, a book that really flows, since he started taking the drug. And the Merry Pranksters are the ones who put fluorescent paint in psychedelics...