Word: alcoholics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...college man learned in the classic lore of "a number of deceased nuisances like Horace and Socrates and Pluto." Other passengers: Zeb, an old family detainer fond of saying "howsom-ever''; Dr. Ewing T. Snodgrass, an engaging purveyor of something called Distilled Essence of Spooju (43% alcohol, 57% swamp water), who strikingly resembles W. C. Fields; and the doctor's nubile daughter Millie...
...were to be avoided. When I objected, he said. "Look at it this way. How would you like to swim in the same pool with one of them?" This was in Ohio, remember. Another time, my high school American history class spent an entire month on the subject of alcohol--everything from how to make it to how to break the habit--and then took a test to determine who should represent the school on the state-wide alcohol examination...
...Moving Van is the story of the handsome All-America football star who is so frightened by life that he turns to the jug and throws away the stopper. His Brimmer is another charming lush whose great wastes of emptiness can be filled in only with the help of alcohol and indiscriminate sex. Typically they are men with much in them that is good, and Author Cheever registers their fright and decline with delicate ruefulness and in writing that is unfailingly readable. But how they got that way is something that he too casually skirts...
...discovery of his illness comes very close to crushing Watanabe, the old man. Death so appalls him that to escape the thought of it he must drink, although he realizes alcohol will only worsen his condition. He tries to tell his son and daughter-in-law what is wrong with him, but they completely misunderstand his first few remarks and prevent him from explaining his predicament. His son's aloofness is a severe blow; for Watanabe, widowed soon after his marriage, has devoted his life...
...some act or object seemingly unconnected with their anxiety. Phobias seem to occur in dazzling profusion: Blakiston's New Gould Medical Dictionary lists 217 of them (see box). More prevalent but less generally recognized as cover-ups for anxiety are com pulsive forms of behavior and addictions to alcohol and narcotics...