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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...witnessing," says a French Jesuit philosopher, Father Georges Morel, "is the decadence of a culture that was too rich and too critical." Father Morel finds, for example, that "the ideal of a total view of life is finished" among French intellectuals. "All experience can be interpreted from a thousand points, each equally valid," he says. "In literature, this is expressed in a greater interest in the material, the linguistic texture, than in the thought content." Literary Critic Maurice Nadeau finds, furthermore, that many young novelists are simply "popularizing or dramatizing the linguistic and sociological findings" of such popular scholars...
...Powder were, as one student who heard them, said, "Watching TV on the wall and seeing snakes on the shower floor." A friend brought them over to the infirmary to a doctor on the condiiton that the administration not be told. In a prep school community of about a thousand where everyone talks about everyone else, this was risky. The administration found out and in the room searches that followed, faculty members found a number of Benzedrex Inhaler tubes, that had been chewed, in a student's wastebasket...
...ability. A similar effect on a rat's shinnying skills is also caused by derivates of 3,4, dimethoxyphenethylamine (DMPEA), more simply known as "the pink spot" because of its color in paper chromatography tests designed to detect it. DMPEA has been found in the urine of several thousand severely ill schizophrenics. It was isolated six years ago by Psychiatrist Arnold Friedhoff and Biochemist Elnora Van Winkle of the New York University School of Medicine, and studied further in additional tests in England and Rumania...
...York, are large enough worlds for a playwright. The city imbues him with conflict, crisis, tension. The city moves at a kinetic tempo; drama catches the beat. Like an opulent genius of creation, the city sketches a hundred finely shaded variations on a common human type, stages a thousand impromptu confrontations from dawn to dawn. All this is the adrenaline of drama, and in the U.S., only New York provides...
...wonder at it all--a thousand teachins, marches, demonstrations before, when you were young, or younger. A generation had grown up on Vietnam protest. And here, was a carnival atmosphere. "One more parade...