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The next day’s Crimson put the controversy on page 1: “Psychologists Disagree on Psilocybin Research.” The day after that, the story was picked up by the Boston Herald, a Hearst paper, and given a much punchier if not quite as accurate headline: “Hallucination Drug Fought at Harvard—350 Students Take Pills.” Now the story was out, and very soon Tim
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The final selection, made by the Zappa office from albums supplied by Rhino employee Tom Brown, comprised, As An Am (New York, 1981), Live At The Ark (Boston, 1968), Freaks & Motherfuckers (New York, 1971), Unmitigated Audacity (Indiana, 1974), Any Way The Wind Blows
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He often spoke of “dear old Adolf” and his SS, who knew what to do with thugs who picked on artists. America was the place, he said, “where honest men were all robbed and bludgeoned by scoundrels.”
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There was Captain Peter Moore, a small man, Dalí's business manager, on the end of a lead being led by an ocelot
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also watched a documentary about Ram Dass on Netflix. Ram Dass, whose real name was Richard Alpert, was an apostle of LSD in the 1960s, along with Timothy Leary. Later