Word: alcohols
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Cautious Hairsplitting. Speaking for the four dissenters, Justice Abe Fortas insisted that the court should not countenance a revolving jailhouse door for drunks, either. It was cruel and inhuman punishment, he said, to impose a criminal penalty on an alcoholic "who cannot resist the constant excessive consumption of alcohol and does not appear in public by his own volition...
...notion that marijuana is safer for the user than alcohol, or at least no worse, has become one of the soothing and glibly repeated cliches of the day. Increasing numbers of medical men agree with it, among them James L. Goddard, who recently resigned as commissioner of the Food and Drug Administration. Alarmed by widespread and often unverified acceptance of the idea, the A.M.A. and the National Research Council last week took a joint potshot at the drug in what the A.M.A. called a "major position paper" (translation: a report that falls just short of being official A.M.A. policy...
...daughter Josie is "misbegotten" because she weighs 180 Ibs., stands 5 ft. 11 in., and is, in her own eyes, "a big, rough, ugly cow of a woman." A virgin who shams wantonness, Josie is wildly in love with Landlord Jim Tyrone Jr., a dead soul embalmed in alcohol. Tyrone is, of course, another portrayal of O'Neill's elder brother who also appears in Long Day's Journey Into Night...
...just plain in love. Honest relationships now, they contend, will lead to better marriages later on. And while students are increasingly aware that LSD and Methedrine are dangerous, marijuana has become an accepted part of college culture. For many, it simply provides a more illuminating kind of high than alcohol does...
...Yvor Winters and R. P. Blackmur. In Santa Fe, Laughing Horse (1921-39) celebrated the Southwest through the writing of such contributors as Upton Sinclair and Sherwood Anderson. Not all of the contributors by any means became well known; many of talent gave up, or turned to Hollywood or alcohol. "Some of the people now forgotten," says Robert Lowell in an introduction to the series, "are almost as interesting as those that survived. They are the underpinnings of the house...