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...plenty of room for craft and eloquence. He steered clear of London and the literary life, spending his career as a librarian in provincial cities. Formidably shy, he never married, remaining deeply attached to a burdensome mother until her death at 91, when he was 55. He was a drinker and a jazz buff, but he habitually cloaked himself in a grave manner (when he turned 60, Alan Bennett asked, "but when was he anything else...
...ever look in the mirror and ask herself if this was all a dream? "No. It sounds ridiculous now, but then it was natural." Her marriage to Randolph, a noted drinker and gambler, broke up in 1945 (the couple had one son, Winston, now in the House of Commons), and Pamela moved to France...
...devout Pepsi drinker. Despite shifts in fads and general opinion, I was true to my soft drink. Peer pressure and public ridicule could never sway my faith sneered at the weak-willed fools who fluctuated monthly between Pepsi and that other cola...
Instead of a higher drinking age, the data indicate that a lower drinking age combined with a higher driving age would best reduce drunk driving fatalities. Plus, it's a lot harder to be an underage driver than an underage drinker. If practical considerations are paramount, as MADD would have it, this is the clear solution. This way, all new drivers would already be experienced drinkers...
...This looks promising," said Joseph D. Brain, Drinker professor of environmental physiology at the School of Public Health. "I think it's pretty solid stuff...