Word: visional
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...term derives from the pre-World War II jitterbug adjective "hep": to be "with it"; hep became "hip" (in noun form, "hipster") during the bebop and beatnik era of the 1950s, then fell into disuse, to be revived with the onslaught of psychedelia. *A 14th century English troubadourian vision, the Land of Cockaigne was inhabited by precooked "larks well-trained and very couth who cometh down to man his mouth." The larks were eaten by hooded monks, who prayed through psychedelic church windows that "turn themselves to crystal bright." A new U.S. postage stamp of Thoreau, designed by Painter Leonard...
Usually marijuana produces a feeling of euphoria and exaltation; subjective judgments of time, distance, vision and hearing are prolonged. It can also cause paranoid episodes. According to medical experts, the pungent smelling weed does not result in physical dependence, and once the user learns the number of puffs necessary to reach his "high," he rarely takes more. Some medical authorities and federal officials believe that the drug will eventually be legalized. Hippies, who pass a joint like a peace pipe, quote Genesis I-"Let the earth bring forth grass"-as justification for its use. And, invariably, they argue that marijuana...
Whatever its divisions in this centennial year, Canada seems to be reaching out for a fresh vision of itself, a new identity. Canada's strength, the Queen said, "derives from national unity, and it can only be sustained and flourish if that national unity prospers...
Games Children Play. By contrast, the U.S. pavilion's A Time to Play, commissioned by the USIA, demonstrates a promising new technique and talent. Employing three screens simultaneously, Director Art Kane offers a portrait of the games children play. With the vision of a painter, he observes a group of kids as they run exuberantly, following the leader who jumps from screen to screen. He also explores the varied geometric patterns of hopscotch courts, and shows a group of boys fighting each other on a pyramid-like peak to be come. "King of the Hill." Kane's wittiest...
Choate, who was for years the paper's publisher, was right out of the old school of Boston newspaper publishing. Some say he was the model for Amos Force, the crusty, vengeful newspaper publisher in Edwin O'Connor's The Last Hurrah. Choate's vision of the role of the Herald and the Traveler in Boston would never have allowed him to cease so arbitrarily the publication of one or the other. But Akerson is a businessman, not a visionary, and for him the profit and loss sheet determines the length of a paper's life. The Traveler, whatever...