Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also the bothered, bewildered and just plain bombed. His salon is a saloon with carpeting, usually sporting a get-away-from-it-all name like the Shangri-la or the Windjammer. The lights are low, and the prices are high. And what escape the customer cannot find in the alcohol and easy ambiance, the cocktail pianist provides with a painless medley of ballads, show tunes, light classics and, inevitably, a Happy Birthday...
...when the work gang is roistering in the city, Morrison prowls beyond the gorge and encounters the Lani, a tribe of bushmen. Among these simple, amoral savages, he rediscovers the unsophisticated pleasures, the quick and easy friendships of a time when "all tastes were like summer and youth, before alcohol and tobacco and sour love...
...drinking: "Neither students nor their guests are permitted to have alcoholic beverages anywhere on the campus." It is said that evidence of alcohol in rooms is sufficient grounds for expulsion...
...book was put together by David Solomon, whose qualifications are limited to the fact that he is a former editor at Esquire, Playboy and Metronome, and his bias is plainly evident. Smoking marihuana, he says flatly in his introduction, is not so harmful as cigarettes or alcohol, and should be legalized...
...article in the United Nations' "Bulletin on Narcotics." What puts people off, says Murphy thoughtfully, is that pot users become passivists in a world that values activity. "In Anglo-Saxon cultures," he writes, "inaction is looked down on and often feared, whereas overactivity, aided by alcohol or independent of alcohol, is considerably tolerated despite the social disturbance produced...