Word: bourbons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...September, 1967, he lost his bet." The caller is a militant antiwar organizer and old Harvard classmate, who extracts from Mailer a promise to participate in the Washington protests and thus give up a valuable weekend. The lost weekend really starts off when Norman, very much in his bourbon cups at a fund-raising evening in a theater, urinates on the floor of a darkened men's room. He then goes on to bully his fellow speakers with arrogant bluster and to bawdy his audience with testy obscenity-for which he offers a spirited defense. He uses...
Babies and bourbon drinkers were faced with the same problem last week. The supply of containers from which they get their nourishment was being rapidly diminished because of a strike by the A.F.L.-C.I.O.'s Glass Bottle Blowers Association. The walkout by 44,000 employees had shut down 102 plants across the country that supply 90% of the nation's glass containers...
...reason "The Steps of the Pentagon" is Mailer's best work, as Harper's boasts on the cover, is one magnificent ten-page passage about Thursday Night at the Ambassador Theatre. Time Magazine described the scene in a red-bordered box last October, telling how Mailer slurped bourbon from a coffee mug and yelled obscenities at the audience, as Mitchell Goodman, Robert Lowell, and Dwight MacDonald--the other speakers--sniggered at him patronizingly in the wings...
...case of Mrs. Cunningham, the respite was as long as any recorded. After the first alcohol treatment worked, Dr. Perell sent her home from Overlook Hospital in Summit, N.J., with the prescription to "feel free to do a little elbow bending." Mrs. Cunningham felt like two bourbon-and-ginger-ale highballs a day. "This," she says, "was the only thing I could keep down." But it did not raise the alcohol level in her blood high enough to keep the oxytocin down. For that, a level close to the intoxication mark is needed. Her contractions began again. So back...
...sold in a bookstore is not necessarily a book. It could be a nonbook, or as Miss Hackett would say, a "nonreading" book. A lifelong career woman in the book business, she thus distinguishes between reading books and nonreading books much as an alcoholic or a barman would describe bourbon and branch water as a drink and Metrecal as a non-drink-liquid food, perhaps. In any event, the nonreading category consists of two main classes, the "how-to" and the "self-help." After the Bible, whose varied editions and vast sales are beyond specific reckoning, the top sellers...