Word: barroomful
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...developed its own stereotypes, on hand in these pages as if answering a roll call. There is the tough-guy-meet-Zen school, whose usually quite high priest is William (Naked Lunch) Burroughs. There is the mumbling, imagist-naturalist prose that reflects life as if seen through a speckled barroom mirror. There is a scattering of earnest erotica. Much of all this displays the four-letteracy with which very young authors prove to the world that they are grown...
...Today the family room has become a barroom and a living vaudeville performance headlining Mother in an irresponsible way of life," cried WCTU President Mrs. Fred J. Tooze of Portland. Ore. "From the White House to the home, it has become almost a social obligation to serve alcoholic beverages in this country...
...curiously romantic assertion of modern literature's most popular legend-that the world is a conspiracy intent on destroying the poet by pulling him from "the Oedipal throne of his loneliness and art." In other times, poets died simply of starvation or of drink or in barroom brawls or at the hands of their mistresses' husbands. Now, if they abide by literary rules, they must succumb to a kind of massive sociological assault...
...tell a harried mother what to feed her daughter's new pet eel, or help wives to trace runaway husbands and illegitimate sons to find their fathers. FBI agents constantly thumb the library's foreign and domestic phone directories from 2,700 cities, and many a barroom argument is settled with a quick call to the sober Information Division. About the only thing that ever flustered the library was New York's rage a few years ago over the Herald Tribune's "Tangle Town" puzzle contests. To stem brawls in its halls, the library finally...
...over the city, even though it was early in the season, businessmen deserted the office to cluster anxiously around barroom TV sets. Radios blared baseball at pedestrians on downtown sidewalks. It was more than the sobersided Detroit Athletic Club could stand. "We are impelled," announced the club's News, "to caution the Tigers' friends not to make too hasty an appraisal of their potential." Few Detroiters listened. Their big-league ball club, moribund for the past 15 years, was suddenly the top team in baseball. Last week the Tigers split four games with the New York Yankees, swept...