Word: dope
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...some passages of surpassing brilliance-but the story Mailer wrote and lived was mostly a story of repeated failures. His first marriage ended in divorce. In Mexico he got on the marijuana kick; in Greenwich Village he took to Seconal and Benzedrine (he later managed to cure himself of dope). He became a fiery advocate of lost and leftist causes-an authority on hipsters, bebop, Marxism, existentialism. Once, in an excess of underdoggery, he wrote an article defending homosexualism (an idea that revolted him) for the deviate magazine...
...most of Kirchner's painting is a feverish foreboding, and it was natural that it should be so. In 1914, after volunteering for the artillery. Kirchner had a nervous breakdown and was found to be suffering from tuberculosis. From then on, his life became a battle against alcohol, dope, and, in his last years, the Nazis. In 1937 the Nazis removed 639 of his works from German museums; 32 were displayed in the notorious Munich exhibit of "degenerate art." Less than a year later, at the age of 58, Kirchner ended his life by shooting himself...
...sort of northwestern for intellectuals, resets the Tristram legend as a Klondike comedy. Steady now. The Tristram is John Wayne. Bound home to Nome with a load of mine machinery, Sourdough Wayne picks up a package (Capucine) for his prospector pal (Stewart Granger). Though sorely tempted, the big dope delivers the package still wrapped. Can't he see that the girl is madly in love with him? Probably not: Actress Capucine has only one expression at her command, a look of tender gastritis. When Wayne and friend get back to the mine. Granger fails to hit paydirt...
...Foster Furcolo, Massachusetts' two-term Democratic Governor, was edging his way through the crowded lobby of Boston's Sheraton-Plaza Hotel with campaigning Lyndon Johnson fortnight ago, a Boston postman hailed him in friendly fashion. Cried he, loud and clear: "Hiya, Governor! Ya dope!" That evening when Furcolo appeared on a rally platform with Johnson, Furcolo got a hearty round of boos. Clearly, something was amiss in Democratic Boston. Indeed, for hapless Foster Furcolo, something was amiss all over his state, and last week it was amiss by a mile: Furcolo, 49, running in the primaries...
Summing up his survey, Professor Thun rates aggressive and destructive tendencies as first in the child's garden of evil, followed by thievery, sex ("pulling down your pants in front of other children"), sacrilege ("calling God a dope"), disobedience and, lastly, that mysterious entity known as Grown-Up Sins...