Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Barry Goldwater ordinarily is an amiable sort, a man with an earthy sense of humor who enjoys a drink with friends. With delegates entering his camp in ever-increasing numbers, he ought to be feeling good. He isn't. The hard campaign for the Republican nomination is getting on his nerves...
...Eastern Steamship Corp.'s all-expenses weekend sprees starting at $59 between Miami and Nassau. There are special cruises emphasizing bridge (with Charles Goren), culture (Japanese brush painting and photography). And for the "adventurous"-meaning those with a hankering for hardship, seamanship, courtship or strong drink-there is something called a "Windjammer Cruise...
Moravia's pattern is distinctive but invariable: a Roman lowlife, male, gives a fourth-drink, first-person account of some minor downfall, failing to see its subtleties and thereby allowing the reader a faint, wry smile. The only thing wrong with the formula is that it does not require much space, and the reader is given only four or five pages between wry smiles. If the book is used as night-table literature, even the weariest citizen cannot achieve unconsciousness without meeting, say, the indignant wife of Federico the upright thief, the witless teen-ager who lives to dance...
...Drinking becomes the main release. False ID's are extremely easy to come by, and the Elbo Room, Student Prince and other bars along Atlantic Boulevard in Lauderdale are the most popular places all day and all night, except perhaps from 6 a.m. to noon. Time magazine was probably not far off in its estimate that each boy would consume an average of nine cans of beer a day, and each girl three. (The slogan, according to Time: "When in doubt, drink and shout...
...from year to year-the Five Spot and the Half-Note in New York and the Jazz Workshop in San Francisco are now much like Birdland ten years ago -but the audience is steadily shrinking. Even in Manhattan, there are many nights when fewer than 200 people buy a drink to hear a serious jazzman play...