Word: tripping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TRIP DOWN. We left not long after midnight Thursday. Luck was with us: we had a Volkswagen bus to get us there, and a house in Georgetown to hold us. But all was not pleasant. Outside, a cold rain fell; and inside, with ten people and luggage, we could hardly move...
...large group of freaks huddled together for warmth. We joined them. A couple of people in our group returned from a trip to the VW with bread, cheese, and grass. Soon joints and all sorts of food-chicken, mints, cheese, peanut butter-were being passed through the crowd. We sang with Pete Seeger, we jumped for Richie Havens, we laughed at Tim Leary. A fat man frowned and a young girl took pictures while we rolled joints; everybody else smiled. Then they announced Earl Scruggs. We jumped up and began a round
...whole country is tripping. Drugs make you trust your own perceptions. They make you think you can see everything when really some things are too big, some too small, and some too far away for you to see. Nixon trusts his own eyes. It may be idiotic, but he really thinks he sees America. And, of course, we trust our own perceptions. What this means is very simple-there will be no more mass marches on Washington like the one last Saturday. If a half-million people ever come back to Washington the script will be a little different. Authority...
...another New England semifinal contest. Brown edged Bridgeport 2-1 and earned the right to replay Harvard in Cambridge next Monday afternoon. The Crimson and Bruins are now only two victories from a winter trip to sunny San Jose, California, for the national championship...
That's it folks. The sixties have brought us here. There is no place to go anymore in America. The only terrain left to explore is that of our minds, and Mclfi's play ends with a white-suited man leading the mourners on a trip of the spirit- a trip through the Rockies and across the Mississippi, a trip back to nature, back through time to America that no longer exists and maybe never...