Word: users
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...game" to put down the concerns men usually take seriously. Not that he would eliminate game playing: he says he only wants the games recognized for what they are. In practice, however, this requires a degree of judgment far beyond the capabilities of most mortals. Many a youthful LSD user, newly impressed with what suddenly seems to him the irrelevance of his activities, has dropped out of school a few weeks before he is due to graduate; soon thereafter he is dropping out of life as well, cultishly convinced that he and his psychedelic set are superior because they have...
...Bellevue Hospital; two LSD-using youths were discovered in Hollywood last October devouring grass and tree bark; a college student went berserk on an airliner bound from Los Angeles to San Francisco, tried to force his way into the pilot's cockpit before being subdued, a young male user in Los Angeles tried to stop a car on Wilshire Boulevard by saying "Halt," was hit and killed...
Allegro. He is born on Musikalnyi Peruelok - Music Street - in Kiev. His uncle is a music critic, his mother a brilliant amateur pianist. At the age of ten he memorizes the piano scores of Tannhäuser, Lohengrin, Parsifal. Clearly, little Vladimir is a musical prodigy...
...react violently against others. Suicide is a more probable result than murder. But Dr. Cohen concedes that any man who stays on LSD for three days would require repeated, increasing doses, and might have reactions not previously seen by psychiatrists. Equally important is the basic personality of the LSD user: on college campuses and in beatnik dives in California, most users are young, directionless and more confused than hostile; New York City may well have a greater proportion of hard-core misfits, with different problems...
...Potter, in retirement, has achieved the highest form of immortality--he is now part of a computer program. His Eng Sci 110 friend, now a programmer for a California company, wrote a computer program so that, after the user had made an absurdly simple mistake in working the machine, the computer would print out, "Congratulations! You have just committed the impossible error. Please notify Stephen Potter immediately at this address..." The program got world-wide distribution and a few weeks ago Stephen received a letter from a very embarrassed French Army Minister...