Word: weil
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...Andrew Weil '64, M.D. '68 belongs to the second class of healers. His concern in The Natural Mind is drugs and their relationship to the human consciousness. Weil has grown up with the drug scene; he began when Leary and Alpent did, experimenting with mescaline as a freshman in Claverly. He wrote papers for Riesman on drugs in American society and went on to Harvard Medical School. As an intern Weil treated the "victims" of the Haight in San Francisco. In 1968 he conducted the first thorough, objective study of marijuana in this country since 1946; the results, though they...
...drug expert, is to do neither the book nor its author full justice; for though The Natural Mind at first glance, is a same and objective discussion of the use of drugs in this country and its probable cause, its value and impact go much further. Because Andrew Weil trusted his own response to drugs and altered states of consciousness, he has been able to explore the realm of the human mind unhampered by the dictates of medical and psychological experts. Because he followed the classic route of the medical student, and acquainted himself thoroughly with the methods, goals...
That sort of thing. I like intellectuals who've lived in the world - George Orwell, James Agee, Simone Weil...
Eagleton's name, says McGovern Executive Assistant Gordon Weil, had first come up speculatively about a month before. When his assets and liabilities were discussed at the last-minute staff meeting, several staff men mentioned rumors of a drinking problem; none, insists Frank Mankiewicz, concerned hospitalization. Weil and one or two other staffers made quick calls to Missouri political figures and to journalists. Says Hart: "There was no tangible evidence whatsoever. Nobody could verify." Despite firm, repeated words of discouragement from Edward Kennedy, however, McGovern stuck to the belief that Ted would run as No. 2. Myer Feldman...
Grousing. Plainly, McGovern was badly served by his staff-a staff of his choosing. He has had other problems with it, partly because he has confused the areas of authority. Gordon Weil, 35, is an abrasive Ph.D. Who joined two years ago as press secretary. He undertook to investigate the Eagleton rumors and he was the staff man principally responsible for the poorly worked-out welfare scheme that McGovern was forced to abandon during the primary campaign. After McGovern persuaded Larry O'Brien to sign on as national campaign director, Rival Gary Hart started putting out reports that...