The acid test is how this affects administration foreign policy.
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"That will be the real acid test of ambition," Meyer said.
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The Trump administration has flunked the acid test for limited government.
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But he does offer a powerful intellectual acid test for that change.
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I'm also rereading "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" by Tom Wolfe.
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This was the acid test, and he has answered in the affirmative.
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But I don't think either ... You know what's a really good acid test?
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Yeah, but the point, though, is that I think that's an acid test.
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Always the suit, even with the perpetually stoned Merry Pranksters in "Acid Test".
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Timothy Leary, counterculture, acid test, Ken Kesey—that was the history of psychedelics.
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The acid test will come on Friday when Fed chairman Janet Yellen (pictured) speaks.
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The acid test, though, will be to drill where the map thus generated suggests.
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That would be the acid test of the president's motivations in his selection of Brett Kavanaugh.
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And order the collector's edition of "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," out now via Taschen.
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"We call it the stomach-acid test," said CFP Ashley Bleckner, a financial advisor with RS Crum.
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This is the acid test of any scientific theory: Does it make predictions that ultimately come true?
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Only 18 months into their association, this was the acid test of Rockwell's trust in his new patrons.
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Hubei reported 349 new confirmed cases, after the removal of 279 cases with negative nucleic acid test results.
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They have had a CT scan and a nucleic acid test -- a laboratory examination to identify a virus.
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Hopefully this will inspire Gus Van Sant to finally get The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test off the ground.
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Most important, CR says 97 percent of owners expect their next car to be a Tesla (the acid test).
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This Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test edition is the second in a series of imaginative represses spearheaded by Schiller.
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You're mentioned briefly in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, when you come in to shoot those strobe photos.
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He said that when the elder Mr. Li, who has pneumonia, took the nucleic acid test, the result was negative.
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It's easy to judge a car from the front, but the acid test of a great design is the rear.
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These tests are a form of nucleic acid test, which are often used to detect viruses like Hepatitis and Ebola.
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Zhu was told to wait for a nucleic acid test that would provide the final verdict, but it never came.
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The author of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities was a pioneer of New Journalism.
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However, scientists have pointed to problems with the nucleic acid test producing false negatives, meaning infected patients could be going undetected.
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The future of the company, an ailing maker of display TVs, was shaping up to be an acid test of Japanese reform.
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Put it this way: If Bear wasn't on the scene, there would literally be no acid in The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test.
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The incubator was Stewart Brand and Ramon Sender's three-day Trips Festival, a kind of "super acid test," in Tom Wolfe's famed account.
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On Tuesday, after he had been under self-quarantine for 11 days, the committee told him to do a third nucleic acid test.
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Schiller clearly has a passion for this revolutionary era of journalism, but The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test holds special significance for him.
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The Grateful Dead have just performed at the now-infamous Watts Acid Test in Los Angeles, although there apparently wasn't much actual "playing" involved.
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After said acid test of beating the first boss—kind of a dedication filter for newcomers—the real experience of Dark Souls III begins.
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Tom Wolfe, the white suit–wearing author of classic works like The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test and The Bonfire of the Vanities, has died.
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Mr Wolfe travelled with Ken Kesey, one of the apostles of psychedelic drugs, and captured the experience in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968).
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With major banks kicking off second-quarter earnings reports at the end of the week, Lee says earnings will be the "acid test" for stocks.
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The acid test for Tesla Motors will be its mass-market Model 3, which could be as cheap as $22,100 after tax incentives for some buyers.
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That aura extends to his music videos, as proven in the visual marvel that is his clip for "Acid Test" off last year's underrated Indigo album.
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Zane Lowe premiered "Acid Test" during his Beats 1 radio show yesterday, and it's a sumptuous slice of jazz-R&B that slowly unfurls over five minutes.
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"The threatened tariffs are an acid test for the transatlantic relationship," said BDI President Dieter Kempf, adding one in four jobs in Europe's biggest economy depends on exports.
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He posts regularly to his Soundcloud, and the official release of the Foregrow EP will be out on Record Store Day (April 16) on Acid Test / Absurd Recordings.
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Major scientific advancements in blood screening practices allow us to detect HIV just nine to 11 days after infection through use of the nucleic acid test, or NAT.
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Many small EU states see the willingness of big powers to risk trade with Britain to protect Ireland as an acid test of the value of EU membership.
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She is, unlike Mr. Obama, an interventionist, who would have inflamed international tensions, leaving Germany (and Europe) in an acid test between the West and East, facing armament.
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Like the last LP, Trickfinger II will arrive on Los Angeles imprint Acid Test, which is dedicated to electronic music pushing the limits of the Roland TB-303.
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To many observers, Mosul will be the acid test of Iraq's viability -- and whether its mosaic of sectarian, tribal and ethnic groups can live in peace, if not harmony.
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The race became an acid test for the allegiance of working-class voters, attracting millions of dollars from Republican "super PACs" and from small-donor Democrats across the country.
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Wolfe wrote the book in a fast-paced style that flung readers through the breakneck existence of the Pranksters and made Acid Test an essential read on the countercultural decade.
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To many observers, Mosul will be the acid test of Iraq's viability -- and whether its complex mosaic of sectarian, tribal and ethnic groups can live in peace, if not harmony.
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The trick to boosting the smartwatch's appeal among women will be the acid test for devices that push style over substance, which could turn out to be a losing proposition.
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" (FT) • On "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test": "one of the great chronicles of Silicon Valley culture — although it wasn't clear that it was about Silicon Valley at the time.
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For Republicans nationwide, it's an acid test: side with a mercurial president who demands devotion, or with the attorney general, who insists on probity and the letter of the law.
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Eight percent of offspring of pregnant women in U.S. territories with a positive nucleic acid test for Zika infection in the first trimester had birth defects linked to the virus.
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By all indications, an acid test could come as early as week, with the administration poised to impose a range of new tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods.
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The first episode — really, the first 15 minutes of the first episode — is the perfect acid test for whether this kind of wide-eyed but arch faux-earnestness is your thing.
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And if the acid test is to be able to do it all when it counts the most, then Toure passes with first-class honours, as his medal collection duly demonstrates.
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"In all honesty, when we did the acid test of doing it in really small spaces [like a screen or phone boxes], the current lettering was really a challenge," she says.
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"To me, the acid test is, we've really got to start thinking about what we're going to do as a committee to recommend legislation to protect the 2018 election," Whitehouse said.
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I posed the question to people of all stripes and have come to realize that the question is itself a theatrical acid test: It gives way to passionate replies on both sides.
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And in college, I used TV on the Radio's "I Was a Lover," the opening track from their sophomore album Return to Cookie Mountain, as a sort of acid test for potential friends.
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For each of the last four years, Flog Gnaw has served as an acid test of sorts for Odd Future fans as the collective recedes from the mainstream to occupy more cultish territory.
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"Now the point is not whether Mencken is right or wrong, but that we have here a person perfectly willing to offend," he wrote in "Acid Test" (19743), his first collection of essays.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Europe's climate change credentials face an acid test this week when the bloc's lending arm, the European Investment Bank, decides whether or not to stop funding fossil fuel projects beyond next year.
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"We firmly believe that core consumer price inflation is rising and the March CPI report will be the acid test of that hypothesis," said John Ryding, chief economist at RDQ Economics in New York.
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Think of it as a kind of an electric Kool-Aid acid test for the digital age—but the subjects didn't have to jump on a school bus named "Further" or indulge in LSD.
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"My instinct is this is a real acid test on the durability of the Trump coalition, and also the ability of Republicans to reach out to and hold working-class voters," said former GOP Rep.
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As Congress nears the finish line on comprehensive tax reform legislation, make no mistake: it is an acid test of our elected leaders' commitment to supporting U.S. manufacturers, and manufacturing jobs across the United States.
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"I wanted to make very clear that the Mueller investigation, which has nothing to do with bigotry, is not going to be the acid test for whether or not we will have another vote," Green said.
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At the center of two of the 1960s' greatest exports—New Journalism and drug culture—lies Tom Wolfe's first book, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, and there it has lain, unmoved for some 48 years.
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Never. Do you have an acid test for being able to assess an entrepreneur and saying to him or her, "Yeah, I think that you are going to have this flexibility," or, "No, I can tell you don't"?
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Wolfe's 1968 book The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test told the story of writer Ken Kesey and his cadre, the Merry Pranksters, a group that bloomed near Stanford University and came to lead and exemplify the hippie movement.
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At the end of that time, when he'd completely run out of money and acid and wanted to set up a lab, he decided I'd passed the acid test and let me become his apprentice in the next lab.
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LONDON (Reuters) - Bank of England Governor Mark Carney warned on Tuesday of the potential shock to Britain's economy from Brexit which could serve as an "acid test" for countries around the world trying to respond to the challenges of globalization.
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Brexit is an "acid test" of the future for global trade and "could go quite badly", the Bank of England governor has said in his strongest warning yet on the risks of the UK leaving the EU without a deal.
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Lopez Obrador surged to power last year on a vow to end years of graft, and many view the Odebrecht case, which hung uncomfortably over the administration of his predecessor, as an acid test of his pledge to stamp out corruption.
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HE'S A MERRY PRANKSTER, TOO Speaking of the counterculture, the doc also appeared in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," Tom Wolfe's nonfiction chronicle of the cross-country trip taken by the novelist Ken Kesey and his LSD-lit Merry Pranksters.
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All of four of the games that the Warriors and Spurs will play against each other this season will be feasts for basketball purists and casual fans alike, but they pale in significance compared to the acid test of the playoffs.
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PITTSBURGH — The special election deep in Trump country in southwest Pennsylvania on Tuesday has become an acid test for the allegiance of working-class voters, and organized labor has gone all in for the Democrat in the race, Conor Lamb.
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Sales in China will be the acid test for Apple's year ahead: the success of the iPhone 6 in China drove sales last year, while the slower-burn 6S contributed to Apple's first global revenue drop in over a decade earlier this year.
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River Tiber, "Acid Test" Tommy Paxton-Beesley's had an impressive year, and it's only May: he's made starry guest appearances on tracks from kindred spirits like Jazz Cartier and Kaytranada, and he's preparing his debut LP Indigo for release on June 24th.
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And from The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test right up until the Christ-figure ending of Sons of Anarchy, every aspect of outlaw biker culture has been regurgitated over by pop culture so much that it's hard to separate myth from reality.
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The acid test now is whether those who have given up looking for work or have been unemployed for long periods (around 23 percent of those unemployed have been so for six months or more) are able to reintegrate into the jobs available.
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As Tom Wolfe documented in "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (1968), the swashbuckling Ken Kesey drove his "Furthur" bus from psychedelic San Francisco to leafy Houston suburbia in 1964 largely to show off to his friend McMurtry, who was typing madly away.
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Sales in China will be the acid test for Apple's year ahead: the mega success of the iPhone 6 in China drove sales last year, while the slower-burn 6S contributed to Apple's first global revenue drop in over a decade earlier this year.
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Ken Kesey's Acid Test PartiesIn the mid-22004s, prior to the prohibition of LSD in the UK and some US states in 22017, author Ken Kesey holds a series of parties called Acid Tests, the entire objective of which is the consumption of LSD.
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The acid test will be in the follow-through and, while we do not see eye-to-eye with the administration on every issue, that will not stop us from working together to make concrete gains in the fight against out-of-control prescription drug prices.
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A Fed meeting next week may provide the acid test of market expectations that the U.S. central bank could cut rates as much as three times this year, while a G20 summit at the end of the month may yet yield more progress on a trade deal.
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A Fed meeting next week may provide the acid test of market expectations that the U.S. central bank could cut rates as much as three times this year, while a Group of 20 summit at the end of the month may yet yield more progress on a trade deal.
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Whether writing about stock car races or the upper reaches of Manhattan society ("Radical Chic and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers") or hitching a cross-country ride with Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters for "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (20123), he made a fetish of close and often comically slashing detail.
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Woody Harrelson has been a frontrunner to play Ken Kesey in Gus Van Sant's extremely-overdue adaptation of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test for over a decade now, but it looks like Harrelson has decided to tackle another LSD pioneer in the meantime: the actor just signed on to play Timothy Leary in a new miniseries.
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Wolfe was in his mid-70s while hanging out with college kids and working on the novel "I Am Charlotte Simmons," and was a fairly conservative drug-free observer in a coat and tie while traveling with Ken Kesey and his LSD-dropping hippie tribe known as The Merry Pranksters for "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" in the '60s.
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" In the Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, which details the LSD exploits of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters in the 1960s, Tom Wolfe describes them "grooving with this whole wide-screen America and going with its flow with American flags flying from the bus and taking energy, as in solar heat, from its horsepower and its neon and there is no limit to the American trip.
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As leader of the New Journalism in the 1960s he piled up detail, drama and the flash of fiction to tell of trips, bus and otherwise, of the LSD crowd across America ("The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test"), the business of customising cars in Los Angeles ("The Kandy-Koloured Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby"), and status battles among pilots and astronauts in the first space programme ("The Right Stuff").
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"The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test," an account of his reportorial travels in California with Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters as they spread the gospel of LSD, remains a classic chronicle of the counterculture, "still the best account — fictional or non, in print or on film — of the genesis of the '60s hipster subculture," the media critic Jack Shafer wrote in the Columbia Journalism Review on the book's 40th anniversary.
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Tom Wolfe, best known in art circles for his scathing satire of High Modernism, The Painted Word (1975), and another that tackled Modern architecture, From Bauhaus to Our House (1981), was an important American writer who penned such widely read books as The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (1968), The Right Stuff (1979), and The Bonfire of the Vanities (1987), all of which were made into major motion pictures.
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When I saw, perused, and read some of The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, all of the sudden I realized, for the first time as a young photojournalist, that a writer didn't have to be at every goddamn location to write a great book, and that a writer only had to have a small piece of the experience if he had the ability to include his own look at things.
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David Smith: The acid test for Trump's leadership is whether he can save himself Armstrong Williams: Democrats will go broke betting on black voters FROM CONGRESS AND THE STATES: The progressive group Democracy for America is endorsing Mckayla Wilkes (D) in Maryland's 5th District race as she seeks to oust House Majority Leader Steny HoyerSteny Hamilton HoyerThe Hill's Campaign Report: Ohio governor backs postponing Tuesday primary House lawmakers indefinitely postpone return to Washington Liberal group backs challenger to Hoyer MORE (D), who is serving his 2023th term in Congress.
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