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...such recognized LSD experts as Los Angeles' Dr. Sidney Cohen, author of The Beyond Within (TIME, Dec. 18, 1964), the "acid head" who is "taking a trip" is more likely to become passively fascinated by the glories or horrors of contemplating his own navel than to react violently against others. Suicide is a more probable result than murder. But Dr. Cohen concedes that any man who stays on LSD for three days would require repeated, increasing doses, and might have reactions not previously seen by psychiatrists. Equally important is the basic personality of the LSD user: on college campuses...
...People react strongly to Hughes. "I'm supposed to be capricious, a playboy eccentric," he once said in his squeaky voice. He has been all that. Few men have seen him since 1952. He deals, often in the dead of night, over long-distance telephone lines or in cars parked on lonely roads or in chintzy hotel rooms, where he takes off his shoes, drapes his socks over the back of a chair, and talks in terms of millions...
Conscience v. Status. The report says that most students express general satisfaction with Cal, yet even these "cannot isolate themselves from nonconformist attitudes and ideas: they react positively or negatively." The nonconformists believe that most American adults, including their teachers, are "sacrificing conscience to the quest for status" and that "a man must fight hypocrisy to live in a moral world." Yet their own obsession with "keeping cool" is also hypocritical, argues the committee. Their desire for "instant love, instant poetry, instant psychoanalysis and instant mysticism" is just a "form of escape from hard work," clothed in a "quasi-moral...
Undoubtedly, the regime's reactions to domestic pressures and problems will be more immediate and direct than its response to developments outside China's borders. But China also does react to a changing world environment. Once seventy percent of its trade was with the Communist world; in 1965 about seventy percent of China's trade was with industrialized non-Communist countries. Japan has, I believe, replaced Russia as her leading trade partner. Not one of China's leading trade partners can be classed a strong ally, and ten of these are allies or close to the United States. The rigid...
...seems to me a fact that the only way a student can influence his chance with a House is a letter." Gill declared. But he noted that freshmen were not sure how the Committee would react to letters of preference...