Word: alcoholism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Benno Schmidt isn't tense. He can pitifully attempt to compensate for his incompetence as an administrator by screaming anti-Harvard slurs in a greasy pizza place renowned for selling alcohol to minors. As a consequence, Yale isn't tense. Just ask my friend David at Yale, who is quite relaxed. (He's also done with finals...
...seem Chekhovian only because they are so candid and self-aware. Kaiulani Lee is the older sister who sacrificed by staying home to tend to her father, Haviland Morris the sister who opted to marry for money, Margaret Colin the one who drowned herself in the Molotov cocktail of alcohol laced with utter honesty. John Pankow excels as the village lad who romanced each girl in turn, settled for the one who would have him, and went on to a diplomatic career that eclipses the golden clan's luster in every mind but the one that counts...
...Look at Heavy College Drinkers In trouble with the authorities: 62% In physical fights as a result of drinking: 53% In alcohol-related auto accidents: 29% In other alcohol-related accidents...
...Look at 50-Year-Old Harvard Graduates Who Drank Heavily When in College now alcohol abusers now moderate drinkers Experienced deteriorating health in last 10 years: 35% 10% Have healthy marriages...
Sources: "Extensive Uses of Alcohol Among College Students," by Henry Wechsler and Mary Rohman in The Journal of Studies on Alcohol, January 1981, and The Natural History of Alcoholism, by George E. Valliant...