Word: weil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Inhale Deeply. Weil organized two study groups composed of men aged 21 to 26 who had no known psychiatric disorder. Nine of the men had never smoked marijuana (although most said they had wanted to); the other eight were regular users...
...leader of the research team was Andrew T. Weil, 26, a senior medical student at Harvard who graduated last summer and is now an intern at San Fran cisco's Mount Zion Hospital. Weil hopes to make a career of research into drugs that influence the mind. With marijuana, he learned?the hard way?about some of the research difficulties involved. Pos session or use of marijuana is illegal, except by hard-to-get federal dispensation. Universities are skittish about sponsoring research that might incur public or congressional criticism, and it took Weil a frustrating year to get the study...
...study, headed by Dr. Norman E. Zinburg, assistant clinical professor of Psychiatry, marks the first time that non-marijuana smokers have been observed in a clinical laboratory as they first smoke the drug. Working with Dr. Zinberg on the project were Dr. Andrew T. Weil, a Harvard Medical School graduate and intern at Zion Hospital in San Francisco, and Judith M. Nelson, senior graduate student in pharmacology at the Boston University School of Medicine...
...estrangement I spoke of between the white upper-middle-class intellectual liberal, and even radical, community, and the very people whose lives they want changed, but changed from the distance of their analysis -- rather than through any real communion, the kind of communion that people like Agee and Simone Weil have talked about, the communion that goes with living with people and being a part of them...
...same theme came up again and again. The students accused me of being anti-ideological and a romantic, and I suppose they're right. My heroes are not the New Left heroes, and this is the problem, I guess. My heroes are Bernanos and Agee and Orwell and Simone Weil and Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy--and Reinhold Niebuhr. And I would add within my own profession Erik Erikson and Anna Freud...