Word: alcoholisms
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first time in 25 years I'm seeing the world without an alcoholic haze," Richard Burton boasted last week. And all because wife Elizabeth bet her convivial Welshman that he couldn't abstain for three months. A trimmer Burton has not only won the wager (a kiss or something; he forgets), but has stretched his dry period to nearly six months. Lest his public misunderstand his sober ways, Burton begged his interviewer: "Please don't make me out to be against alcohol. I'll get all sorts of letters from the temperance people, and I certainly...
...movement believes that such protections form a kind of conspiracy to prevent women from expanding their employment opportunities. In Ohio, for example, women cannot work as crossing watchmen, electric-meter readers, shoeshine girls, pin setters in bowling alleys. In nine states women cannot be employed in establishments serving alcohol...
...often lends itself remarkably well to the fundamentalist lifestyle. Jesus has always been prominent in hippie mythology, and the ideal of the shared life draws much of its inspiration from the Bible. Edward Plowman also observes that "in the drug scene, many kids develop a spiritual awareness that the alcohol culture, for example, doesn't have. They believe in a spiritual reality. They've seen visions and demons. Thus a conservative Christianity, which hasn't mythed away God and angels, appeals to them." Moreover, notes Plowman, street Christianity shares the conviction of early Christians that Doomsday...
...derisive radicals dubbed them "Jesus Freaks," the Berkeley group adopted the epithet as its own, and now shares it with the movement. The Front publishes perhaps the best of the new underground Christian newspapers, Right On. In psychedelic typography, the paper urges its readers to foreswear promiscuity, drugs and alcohol...
...technical errors," failed to take into account the milk with which most cereals are eaten and neglected to compare the nutritional values of cereals with other breakfast foods. Choate made a different comparison. The lowest ranking 40 cereals, he said, offer "empty calories-a term thus far applied to alcohol and sugar...