Word: drank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Bonjour Tristesse appeared in 1954, Françoise Sagan became a 19-year-old member of le tout Paris and an instant international celebrity. The world soon learned that she drank a lot of Scotch, loved to play chemin defer and drive Jaguars in her bare feet. The characters in her subsequent books, among them such bestsellers as Aimez-Vous Brahms? and A Certain Smile, tended to be beautiful, languid, bent on self-destruction. They were often driven by pangs of ennui, whose meaning in French implies more cosmic pain than its English translation ("boredom") can possibly convey...
...kind of alcoholic beverage 50 or more tunes in the past year; in 1973 the figure had jumped to 23%. Among senior class boys (17-and 18-year-olds) the percentage of such relatively frequent drinkers rose during the same time span from 27% to 40%. Senior class girls drank less, but they are catching up fast: 29% said that they drank 50 or more times in 1973, compared with only 14% in 1970. Notes Paul Richards, an adviser at a San Mateo high school: "This school represents a socioeconomic background from welfare to upper middle class, and the drinkers...
...began his career as an alcoholic at 15 when he went camping with his brothers. One of the boys opened a bottle of wine, and Joe instantly discovered his weakness. "That night was it for me," he says. "I went looking for a drink in the morning, and I drank all the way through high school. I was in the grip of an insidious, progressive disease." Joe continued to drink through Harvard and the service, but when he went home again his parents sent him to a hospital for "aversion" therapy. "I stayed sober two or three months," he remembers...
...Frances Benjamin Johnston. She was an aggressive, energetic woman with a journalistic bent. Her photographs are exacting records of late 19th century American life, and her method--detached observation--refutes the notion that feminine perception is intuitive and spiritual instead of rational. Contemporaries were rather taken aback because she "drank beer, smoked and daringly showed her ankles"--a spirited soul indeed...
...imaginary animals to write about. He founded a 'cynological institute'--a dog fanciers' store. He ran a sarcastic campaign for parliament as the candidate of the Party of Moderate and Peaceful Progress Within the Limits of the Law. He spent some time in an insane asylum, and he drank all the time...