Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Well past midnight a strapping Negro named Salim al Abdullah, one of Prince Nawaf's two bodyguards, returned to the hotel. He was carrying a small black bag and had an un-Moslem smell of alcohol about him. A hotel porter took the black bag, accompanied Abdullah to his room, where he put his nightclothes into the bag; then both headed for the prince's suite, where Abdullah was to take up his guard duties. Unhappily they went to the wrong floor. Abdullah's key would not open the door, so the porter got a passkey from...
...native named Akva came stumbling into the military post at Ponthierville. 1,400 miles up the Congo River. Blinded from drinking denatured alcohol, he had been expelled from his tribe because he could no longer earn his keep. He began babbling incredible stories about men being kidnaped and killed by creatures that were not exactly crocodiles, not exactly men. Not far away, another native limped into the clinic of a European doctor. He had been on the river in his pirogue, he said, when its bow was seized by the powerful jaws of a crocodile and the boat overturned. While...
Thus five years have passed away, Joe's sickness become so serious that his attending physician is very anxious of his health going to ruin by alcohol. But his only son Joby Chanpin (Ray Stricklyn) hear at that as news, he calls Ann back home from N.Y. and abuses his mother of indifference for her husband strongly. Be that as it may, Joe has a good time with his son, daughter and wife for a few days but happiness is uncertain...
Unfortunately, there are passages when Huxley becomes as blurred as a soma drunkard. There must be a good drug, he argues-something to make man happy and yet not bad, and he has hopes for an amino-alcohol called Deaner, which "sounds almost too good to be true" (no hangover; one just feels lovely...
There is little reason why Radcliffe might not liberalize its rules in this day of merged activities. Her buildings would serve as welcome meeting places. It is also difficult to understand why alcohol will have a more potent effect on 'Cliffies if they drink it on their side of the common rather than on this. If Radcliffe is as much afraid of becoming absorbed into Harvard as she generally appears to be, she might well make it pleasant for girls to use her buildings, before the 'Cliffe becomes little more than a boarding house for wallflowers...