Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When a minister explains the meaning of atonement. Life has its sinner respond: "You mean that Christ took the rap for me?" Explains Dr. Gockel: "You have to meet the pagan where he is." Dr. Gockel allows none of his characters except the fallen to smoke, drink, or dance too close. (His definition of too close: "without space showing between the two bodies.") "But we never preach," he says. "We simply let the value of the Christian message demonstrate itself...
...startle the unwary. It is a place of great men in small jobs, stubbornly resisting the mere geographical transition from Mayo or Offaly or Cork to a great city; it is a place echoing with anecdote, irony and the great Irish wastefulness of spirit involved in drink, tragic brooding and baffled frustration about women. "He's Irish and he broods easy," says one McNulty character of another...
...other reason that has been advanced for curtailment is that students with dates will drink less if thrown out of their rooms at eight-thirty, and thus there will be less reckless driving and general unpleasantness around the Square. This is a curious thesis. Surely there cannot be many students whose thirst is markedly affected by the doings of eighty muscular young men on the other side of the river six hours previously. At least, it is equally likely that students, with only the alternatives of a House Dance or something more expensive, will choose to go without Saturday dates...
...English-speaking people march forward together, to stand steadfast behind the principles that have made the two nations great−of the same faith in their God and in themselves−a belief in the rights of man . . . Ladies and gentlemen, will you please rise with me and drink a toast to the Queen...
...ranges from Fellow Poet Kenneth Rexroth's ardently silly blast at U.S. conformity ("Who killed the bright-headed bird? . . . You killed him in your God damned Brooks Brothers suit") to Fellow Poet John Malcolm Brinnin's vulgarly detailed but more plausible notion (Dylan Thomas in America) that drink and lechery did Dylan in. Caitlin blames America, too, in a different...