Word: drinkingness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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∙BENIGN DESPOTISM. "I have the ablest staff that ever served any President in my memory. There's not a playboy among them. They aren't sitting around drinking whisky at 11 o'clock at night. They aren't walking around with their zippers unbuttoned." -Washington...
Sir: Whatever difficulties may arise between the governments of France and the U.S.A. [Dec. 29], I shall remain faithful to my many American friends. Even if some of your readers advocate a boycott of French products, I shall keep on wearing Arrow shirts, drinking bourbon and reading TIME magazine. I...
Sir: I suggest that history and a Higher Authority than the Council of Churches will determine whether a nation that spends $1.1 billion to celebrate Christ's birthday as a drinking occasion is sick rather than a sinner. As a father, a university faculty member and a human being...
Sir: Concerning the last section, "Inappropriate Abstinence," I beg leave to add a clarifying footnote. You state: "Publications of the Methodists, who long practiced or avowed total abstinence, now freely discuss such subjects as appropriate and inappropriate drinking-and appropriate and inappropriate abstinence." By implication, this appears to say that...
Though there have been frequent articles urging the study of the problem of drinking, to my knowledge no Methodist publication has ever counseled "appropriate drinking" or seriously challenged the "ethos of abstinence" that presently exists within the church membership. Methodists, together with many who are not Methodists, are alarmed by...