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...power line dropped into the brush and started a fire. Winds up to 50 m.p.h. quickly whipped blazes into conflagrations that ruined 2,100 acres of the Angeles National Forest, killed 14 fire fighters and severely burned twelve others. Even those not directly threatened by the flames felt the wrath of the Santa Ana. Temperatures in downtown Los Angeles rose to a stifling 100°; extremely low humidity dried the throats, chapped the lips, and helped bring an unaccustomed irritability to untold millions of Southern Californians...
...hero (Von Sydow) is a prune-faced New England parson insuperably identified with deity. Blankly unable to perceive that the islanders are more Christian than the Christians, this religious imperialist with ruthless righteousness throws down their god of love and raises up in its stead a god of wrath. With their religion in ruins, the Hawaiians lie open to all the blessings of civilization: whisky, syphilis and economic exploitation. By film's end the native nation in only 50 years has withered from 400,000 to less than 150,000 souls, and the parson is forced to assume...
...Parental Wrath. The uninitiated in the nearly full house of 2,500 people are still a little dazed by it all. But the Guide explains. "What we have relived tonight," he says, "is one minute in an LSD session. Visionaries throughout history have made this voyage and come back to teach its truths to the waiting world...
...Guide ought to know. He is Dr. Timothy Leary, former Harvard professor whose experiments with psychedelic drugs aroused such parental wrath that he was dropped from the faculty (TIME, March 29, 1963). Since then, Leary has struck out on a one-man crusade aimed at making LSD and pot as American as apple pie. He is also trying to found a new religion. Death of the Mind is billed as the "first public worship service of America's first indigenous religious movement," the League for Spiritual Discovery. (The initials spell...
Delano, California, is 30 miles and 30 years away from the run-down migrant labor camp described in John Steinbeck's novel, "The Grapes of Wrath." It seems a lot closer...