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...editor of this anthology concludes his arguments for wider distribution of LSD with the statement, "No social authority can successfully arrogate unto itself the right to dictate and fix the levels of consciousness to which men might aspire... Die Gedanken sind frei." Later in the book Dan Wakefield notes, "It has been reported that a pound of LSD dropped into a city's water supply could produce a psychosis of the population that would last long enough for enemy troops to take over...
Partly, the European "revival is a sign of tiredness and nostalgia for calmer times," says Milan Architect Gio Ponti. Hugh G. Wakefield of the Victoria and Albert Museum attributes the renewal to the cyclical rhythm in art taste: "Art nouveau is easily recognizable; yet it is now sufficiently far away from us so it has lost the connotation of old-fashioned." But others think the revival of interest in craftsmanship, the elegant and refined, is no Proustian search to relive things past. Rather, it constitutes a revolt against the grim, stark, formless, spiritless expression of much abstract art and modern...
...Wakefield said that Southern papers were now sending reporters northward to racially-troubled Northern cities, and reporting Northern problems as justification for their own situation...
Segregation in the North is much more "intricate and irrational," Wakefield said. Commenting on the proposed boycott of Christmas shopping, he said that it would be bad "if the integration movement were to become more segregated...
...Wakefield said that his position as a reporter did not allow elaboration of the "deeper aspects" of the racial problem. The most important thing, he said, was "by personal experience to get out of the stereotype...