Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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To justify its ruling, the court turned to the medical profession. Expert defense testimony by a psychiatrist, explained Justice Thurgood Marshall, included the statement that Powell's first drink on each binge was a "voluntary exercise of his will." Powell, said the psychiatrist, was strongly-but not overwhelmingly-compelled...
In 1957, Lowry died in England at 47 after one of his legendary drinking bouts. The coroner's euphemism-"misadventure"-seemed curiously apt. Yet Lowry's struggle with his demons (including a suicide attempt in 1946) had been more productive than was generally known. Among three unfinished novels...
Dark ax the Grave is the story of a Dantean pilgrimage into the inferno of the past with Lowry transparently disguised as Sigbjorn Wilderness, a hard-drinking and "monumentally unsuccessful" novelist. A man given to "making up his life as he goes along," Wilderness is not sure whether his journey...
Does he go to reconnect with old sources of life or to seek out a familiar place to die? The risk is written on every page, beginning with an astonishing, tumbling opening sentence of 198 words (". . . the moving shadow of the plane below them, the eternal moving cross . . ."). At first...
For people who are interested in American drinking habits-and enjoy arguments about statistics-the latest edition of the liquor industry's Handbook brought some more or less momentous information. The bourbons still reign over all (two to one over Scotch), but vodka, the biggest new "white liquor," passed...