Timothy Leary Papers

Enough With 'on Steroids' -- How About 'on Acid'?

Michael Sigman | Posted 08.26.2011

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Michael Sigman

We are using up our nation's reserve of precious steroid metaphors is my point. While we wait for a timelier catchphrase to bubble up from the streets, I'd recommend we rush into use, at least temporarily, the entertaining '60s trope, "on acid."

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New York Public Library Buys Timothy Leary’s Papers

nytimes.com | Posted 08.16.2011

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When the Harvard psychologist and psychedelic explorer Timothy Leary first met the Beat poet Allen Ginsberg in 1960, he welcomed Ginsberg’s particip...

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