Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...play is a stalwart saint of duty who has clearly transcended sex and is presented as a human being of nobility. Maggie the Cat is a tigerish temptress in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, though her prey is her husband, whom she is trying to lure away from alcohol and his homosexual leanings. An evil temptress is rich, aging Flora Goforth in The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore, who tries to corrupt and seduce a young wanderer with a knapsack who may possibly be Christ...
Another youngster, Lorene, who lives in Brooklyn's Bedford-Stuyvesant ghetto, was so withdrawn before being exposed to poetry therapy that she stayed out of school, refused treatment for her disfiguring facial eczema and sought escape in alcohol. Visited at home by English Teacher Morris Morrison, she began to respond and cooperate when he read her two lines from Emily Dickinson, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?/ Are you-Nobody -too?" "In Emily Dickinson," Morrison explains, "Lorene could identify with someone as lonely as herself." Eventually Lorene went for skin treatment and returned to school...
...acid rarely produce bad aftereffects, Pope has found; the drugs that worry him the most are speed and depressants. A number of young people described to him "a sequence beginning with marijuana, then a rise to a plateau of hallucinogen use, followed by... a retreat to opiates, barbiturates, and alcohol." Pope thinks that because of the older generation's heavy use of downs, "depressant use may inspire less guilt or anxiety in youths than does marijuana or the hallucinogens...
...lived for a year in Bedford-Stuyvesant (central Brooklyn), the worst ghetto in the U.S., and took part in building an integrated Community Development Center. We found the overwhelming majority of black people in Bed-Sty neither happy, courageous, nor even remotely "coping." Alcohol, drugs, prostitution, pervasive gambling, fatherless babies, teen-age dropouts, robbery and mugging are daily accelerating facts of life for the majority of whipped, defeated, unstable black victims of white institutionalized racism. Most blacks in the ghetto do suffer-not exotically, but horribly. Coles' misinterpretation denies the critical need for a radical reordering of the allocation...
Part of the problem, says Institute Director Morris Chafetz, is that "America has been laughing at drunks. Yet studies show that countries where drunken behavior is socially acceptable have a lot of alcohol problems, while those that frown on drunks (for example, Israel, Italy and China) have the opposite experience." For this reason, the institute has just mounted an advertising campaign to promote moderate as opposed to excessive drinking. Warns one typical ad: "If you need a drink to be social, that's not social drinking...