Word: beers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Over an early-morning beer in a Los Angeles tavern, bumptious Irish Playwright Brendan (The Hostage) Behan recalled how he told off a Canadian critic during a recent visit to Toronto when he heard the man belittling U.S. space achievements. "I say to him: 'My friend, Ireland will put a shillelagh into orbit, Israel will put a matzo ball into orbit and Liechtenstein will put a postage stamp into orbit before ever you Canadians put up a mouse.' And do you know, he hit me just for that...
Plugs & Hooks. Experienced boatmen, however, tend to view the Texas mariner sourly. "He's a damned cowboy, that's what he is," says one. "He's got a beer can in one hand, the throttle in the other, and he doesn't know the rules of the road." Hot-rodding across the water, many young boatmen have towed water skiers into stumps or other boats; one small lake near San Antonio noted one death per week last summer. At Lake Lavon, near Dallas, speed demons and water skiers thundered down on so many defenseless fishermen that...
Under May skies that made the muddy Danube seem truly blue, Vienna last week relaxedly awaited its important visitors. Crowds strolled the Ringstrasse beneath the turrets and towers of the Rathaus, or climbed up into the Vienna Woods to down seidels of foaming beer with their Liptauer cheese and black bread. Children played in the Schönbrunn gardens or stared solemnly at animals in the zoo; young lovers sat in the wine gardens of Grinzing, nibbling gingerbread and drinking young wine...
...bill making the drunk responsible for his acts. Pushed through after three years of lobbying by female Diet members, the bill pointedly allows police to enter private homes at the request of family members beleaguered by a drunk. "What is the world coming to," cried one Dietman into his beer, "when a man's own wife can have him arrested merely for beating her up while drunk...
...gentlemen and the scholars. I hope you will follow the medieval example of my day when I was Managing Editor of the CRIMSON and send all the candidates out to confiscate this journal and cremate all copies available in the Punch Bowl and put the fire out with good beer...