Word: popular
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results, though incomplete, show that Lehman Hall is a popular gathering place for graduate students, especially those in the humanities and social sciences...
Grinspoon attributes the popular prejudices against grass to the propaganda campaign waged by the Federal Burean of Narcoties during the 1930's and to America's puritanical attitude toward the pursuit of pleasure...
Grinspoon also attacks popular conceptions about the effect of grass on its users. Research. he agrees, has not yet produced any proof that smoking pot leads to violent behavior, sexual debauchery, or even to harder drugs. and there have been studies that give evidence to the contrary...
Grinspoon feels that the greatest charge against the popular drug has been that it may lead to depression or psychosis. However. he says, most of the studies conducted have been conducted on persous with a history of mental illness...
...Believer. An intense nationalist who had a Pan-Slavic fascination with Russia-one reason why his work is exceptionally popular in the Soviet Union -Janáček was a bitter atheist. "A church is concentrated death," he once said. "Tombs under the floor, bones on the altar, pictures that are nothing but torture and dying. Death and nothing but death. I don't want to have anything to do with it." Atheist or not, Janáček had a profoundly spiritual appreciation of the value of life. One of his most powerful compositions is the Slavonic Mass...