Word: drinkers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Monday); a gradual and appreciable drop in efficiency; a change in general appearance and dress habits; frequent disappearances from work." Next, Du Pont medics approach the alcoholic sympathetically, tell him that the company views his alcohol problem as an illness, not unlike heart disease. The company then sends the drinker to its own psychiatrists and to Alcoholics Anonymous-and it holds that A.A. is ten times more effective than the psychiatrists. "One who has never indulged in drinking has a poor chance of succeeding with alcoholics," says Dr. D'Alonzo...
Only when the drinker refuses treatment or returns to steady elbow-bending is he fired. "An employer who frequently threatens termination, but does not follow through, furthers the alcoholic's continued drinking," Dr. D'Alonzo believes. "Sometimes this act [of firing] is the trigger that suddenly brings the alcoholic to his senses...
...buddy! Fall down!" called a sportsman from the row behind, as Lucius tried to determine exactly where it was he belonged. Understanding the situation at once, Lucius steadied himself and determined to stick it out. He turned to the drinker seated in front...
...indifferent to her son, expressing little warmth of feeling, or she is downright hostile to him. The family is unintegrated because, for example, the mother spends most of the day away from home, giving little if any thought to the doings of the children, and the father, a heavy drinker, spends most of his leisure time in bars and cafes, ignoring his family...
...bluest blade of them all is Lee Prince, who is merely rich, charming as a puppy, the handsomest man in the Ivy League, a handy athlete, hard drinker, scholar, and an author with a collection of short stories to his credit before he attains his majority. When he takes his girl friend to Bermuda (this at 17 or so), he does not buy the island, but, next best, he rents a taxi for the entire stay and wins a samba tournament. ''They were something!'' an onlooker reports breathlessly. "She always wore blue, and Lee always wore...