Word: drink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some composers drink. Others dabble in love affairs. Irwin ("Bud") Bazelon goes to the race track. There, he says, "things crystallize for me. All aspects of life-hope, anxiety, success, joy, failure, anticipation-are capsulized in a two-minute ride. It stimulates...
McHenry feels that Santa Cruz is off to a fine start. He regrets that about 10% of his students "aren't mature enough" to handle the lack of grade pressure, tend "to drink beer and horse around." He says they must be culled out next year. The best indication of the optimism about the Santa Cruz experiment is that some 4,000 teachers have applied for jobs there, and more than 2,100 students have applied for the 475 positions in next year's freshman class...
...watched himself becoming helpless and senile, Churchill began to drink more heavily than ever. "I eats well and sleeps well and drinks well," he admitted jokingly in 1953, "but when I get alongside any business I go all of a tremble. I could do without smoking, but not without my liquor; that would be a sad impoverishment. It is extraordinary between night and morning that I should go like this-a bundle of old rags. I am a hulk-only breathing and excreting...
...There is a far greater need for total abstaining societies which would not read newspapers than for ones which do not drink alcohol...
...Jerkism when Bronx teenagers drop down to the Yankee Stadium outfield and steal Mickey Mantle's cap. It is Jerkism to lie down on the floor of the White House or on the tracks of the Southern Pacific to 'protest' anything. It is Jerkism to drink three Martinis, and Jerkism to pretend that Pop Art is Art. It is Jerkism for a boy to grow his hair like a girl's, and . . . Jerkism for a nonrabbinical student to grow a beard. It is Jerkism to be a Communist, and Jerkism to be a John Bircher...