Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hand, was not much of a self-promoter He even seems to have taken a sad pleasure in his role as the unstrung harp of the jazz age. "I talk with the authority of failure-Ernest with the authority of success," he wrote in his Notebook. His difficulties with alcohol and his desperate need to duplicate his youthful successes often drew harsh responses from his old friend Hemingway. In a letter to Maxwell Perkins, their editor at Scribner's, he blamed Scott's troubles on his "cheap Irish love of defeat" and wanted him to stop trying...
...information I sweated years to gather, but if any of you follow this next bit of advice, you will never forget me. Go see jai alai--and bet your birthday. That's right, if gambling is in your blood (but there shouldn't be any room beside the alcohol) go see the "Pride of the Pyrenees" decked out in iridescent uniforms winging pelotas in a Florida jai alai fronton...
What began as a religious holiday now involves large quantities of alcohol. "I expect it's just one more excuse for drinking, like Christmas and New Year's," Bloomfield said...
...think ultimately cocaine is less harmful than alcohol and tobacco," Grinspoon said. However, he is concerned about the potential for abuse if cocaine is legalized and can be bought at drug stores for $30 an ounce instead of the current street price of about $2000, Grinspoon added...
...also said he knows of no evidence that shows cocaine is as dangerous as alcohol, and thus he finds it hard to justify laws on the use of cocaine "when alcohol use is so free...