Word: drinking
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many of the great authors drank--were alcoholics in fact--but drinking did not make them great. Or so Tom Dardis argues in The Thirsty Muse, a fairly engrossing study of alcohol and authorship. He maintains that drink made them shooting stars, living fast and peaking young. Alcohol inhibited their performance and dulled their perceptions...
...also never explores what makes his subjects write. He asserts that they drink because they are slaves to their genes, but he never really explains what inclines them to enter into a alcoholic cycle which they cannot escape...
...wings, radio ruled a fan's life. Teams still traveled by train and, in Halberstam's view, the clubs lost priceless cohesiveness when they boarded airplanes. For these old-timers, alcohol was the prevailing addiction. Red Sox manager Joe McCarthy hectored his players about the evils of drink and then went on benders himself. Kinder, whom Halberstam considers the American League's best relief pitcher of the time, was usually boiled...
MAYBE recapturing our lost youth, even if we only lost it four years ago, is what senior bars are all about. Freshperson Week, our proctors told us to eat, drink and see Love Story, for tomorrow we had to start working. Today, we stand in a similar position, poised over the abyss of boundless promise. Is it any wonder we should want so intensely to party so desperately, as we once did? We'll never get to experience such delirious claustrophobia again...
Valliant says that a study he began in 1940 showed that students who formed drinking habits in college and continued to drink heavily after school suffered from increased health problems...