Translation for '
acid test' from English to Slovak
NOUN | an acid test | acid tests | |
NOUN article.ind sg | pl
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- The quick ratio, or acid-test, measures the ability of a company to use its "near cash" or quick assets to extinguish or retire its current liabilities immediately.
- On December 11, 1965, Muir Beach was the site of the Third Acid Test.
- The development of a nucleic acid test for the HIV-1 RNA has dramatically lowered the rate of donor blood seropositivity to about 1 in 3 million units.
- The hippie legacy in literature includes the lasting popularity of books reflecting the hippie experience, such as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
- agreed to buy the global semi-exclusive nucleic acid test (NAT) patents for HCV and HIV from Chiron.
- Tom Wolfe wrote a widely read account of the early days of LSD's entrance into the non-academic world in his book "The Electric Kool Aid Acid Test", which documented the cross-country, acid-fueled voyage of Kesey and the Merry Pranksters on the psychedelic bus "Furthur" and the Pranksters' later 'Acid Test' LSD parties.
- He was present at the February 12, 1964 Acid Test organized by the Merry Pranksters in Watts, Los Angeles at "Youth Opportunities".
- In "Straw Dogs" he argues that the idea that humans are self-determining agents does not pass the acid test of experience.
- Scheuer is also remembered in Canadian poet Gary Geddes' poem "Sandra Lee Scheuer", found in his 1980 collection "The Acid Test".
- While he was at college, he was inspired to embark on a career in journalism by reading Tom Wolfe's book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test".
- The bus featured prominently in Tom Wolfe's 1968 book "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" but, due to the chaos of the trip and editing difficulties, footage of the journey was not released as a film until the 2011 documentary "Magic Trip".
- Zane Kesey and Simon Babbs edited the video and audio clips made by the Pranksters on the trip to produce a DVD (1999) called simply "The Acid Test", which is distributed by Key-z Productions.
- "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" is a 1968 nonfiction book by Tom Wolfe.
- Wolfe began his career as a regional newspaper reporter in the 1950s, achieving national prominence in the 1960s following the publication of such best-selling books as "The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test" (a highly experimental account of Ken Kesey and the Merry Pranksters) and two collections of articles and essays, "Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers" and "The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby".
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