Word: doped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that I wanted to send my brother," said the man casually. "All right," said the policeman, "let's take it to my office, and we'll eat it together." At headquarters the police opened the package. It contained three pounds of heroin wrapped for delivery to a dope pusher in New York City...
...Tyrone family O'Neill has represented almost all the weakness of which humanity is capable--drunkenness and a narrow-minded avarice in James Tyrone, the second-rate actor; dope-addiction in his wife, Mary; laziness and a destructive urge toward self-abasement in Jamie, their elder son; and physical infirmity in Edmund, the younger. But one tragic day of their lives--more tragic even than many others--the playwright strips them to their souls and shows their humiliating struggles to reveal and impart the depth and truth of their love for one another. Yet the curse of humanity...
Mary Tyrone, living in a world of dope in which she wanders between past and present, removed a little from the humanity of her men, recognizes this problem but knows she cannot attain the spiritual strength in which, "I will hear myself scream in agony, and at the same time I will laugh because I will be sure of myself." And so she seeks escape through morphine, which to her is like the fog closed about their summer house: "I really love fog . . . It hides you from the world and the world from you. You feel that everything has changed...
...TIME, Dec. 6, 1954), had the welcome mat pulled out from under him. His invitation, issued by the Swarthmore chapter of the Students for Democratic Action, was vetoed by S.D.A.'s parent Americans for Democratic Action. Explained an A.D.A. official: ". . . We wouldn't invite convicted gangsters and dope peddlers to address us. We don't see why we should invite a convicted traitor...
...true self forever." The true selves of these complex people have been twisted into and out of shape by life. Edmund thinks Jamie is mad when Jamie says, "The dead part of me hopes you won't get well." He adds that maybe their father is glad that dope "has got Mama again! He wants company, he doesn't want to be the only corpse around the house...