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...DiMaggio's 56- game hitting streak, the ten-year hurdle of Edwin Moses, even (perversely) the 41 consecutive losses of the Columbia University football team are considered gold stars. Regarding Brooklyn First Baseman Gil Hodges' hitless World Series of 1952, the New York Times puzzled, "If he were a drinker or a playboy, it would be understandable. But he's a fine, clean-living paragon of good behavior." When the slump carried over into the next season, Hodges became the particular project of several orders of nuns...
...local spas at Mineralnye Vody and Kislovodsk for vacations and medical treatment. They found their host unusual in several respects. Says Soviet Historian Roy Medvedev: "A regional party first secretary who was intelligent and congenial would have been considered untypical. If Gorbachev had yelled, sworn, been a heavy drinker or a high liver with a rest house outside of town where officials could be entertained by pretty waitresses, that would have been considered normal behavior...
...treatment programs, a 65% increase in the past six years alone. Partly because of the new spotlight on the dangers of alcohol, Americans are beginning to moderate their drinking habits: consumption of alcohol peaked in 1981 and has since declined by 5%. In many social circles today, the big drinker stands out like W.C. Fields at a temperance meeting...
...from judgment. "I'm no holier-than-thou type," says Bowen, "but it has been my experience that the best guys I've known in life have had profound ethical concerns." At the top of his list of ethically minded people is his late mother, the prominent biographer Catherine Drinker Bowen, whose books chronicled the lives of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., President John Adams and 17th century English Legal Scholar and Judge Sir Edward Coke. Her well-known work Miracle at Philadelphia vividly described the making of the U.S. Constitution. "She cared very much about right...
...victim, on the other hand, is to reassure ourselves that we live in a just and harmonious world, a world in which no one who follows the proper path is victimized. Therefore, New Yorkers must believe that the real enemy is not the drunk driver, but the teenage drinker, the proverbial sinner upon whom God wreaks vengeance...