Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Africans seem to get all the liquor they want. The more opulent buy cheap South African brandy for $3 to $4 a bottle from white bootleggers who pick it up at $1.68 in the whites-only stores. The rest drink their troubles away at the illicit drinking parlors of "shebeen queens." wealthy black matrons who serve a throat-scalding, home-distilled brew made by boiling together potato peelings, berries and sometimes a dash of methylated spirits...
...have time for about a drink and a half before the bartender informs you gravely that he must clear all the glasses off the bar. Closing time is 1 a.m. every night except Saturday,. when midnight rings down the curtain. Local libertarians are currently engaged in a full-scale attack on the Blue Laws, but in the meantime, just drink fast. The plush scenes are the Merry-Go Round Room in the Sheraton Plaza Hotel, the Ritz Bar in the Ritz Carlton, the Keyboard Lounge in the Somerset Hotel, and the Eliot Lounge in the Eliot Hotel...
...serve Swiss steak, baked ham, filet of sole, cakes, cookies and other goodies out of gleaming bins and refrigerators. There will be three electric ovens; from nozzles hot and cold water will spurt into collapsible tubes containing dehydrated coffee or fruit juice, so that the weightless spacemen can drink by squeezing the liquids into their mouths. Built under Air Force contract, the Space Kitchen weighs 818 lbs., of which only 236 lbs. is food. But as of now, there is no rocket big enough to launch a kitchen-equipped spaceship...
...novel fascinating, nevertheless, is its curiously romantic assertion of modern literature's most popular legend-that the world is a conspiracy intent on destroying the poet by pulling him from "the Oedipal throne of his loneliness and art." In other times, poets died simply of starvation or of drink or in barroom brawls or at the hands of their mistresses' husbands. Now, if they abide by literary rules, they must succumb to a kind of massive sociological assault...
...remaining quaffers. The liquor permit would be permitted to expire the following January, which it did, in a blaze of apathy, Harvard men turned back to milk at the Bick, and a few months later another perennial polltaker informed them that milk was indeed Harvard's favorite drink...