Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which relies heavily upon religion). Starting from the premise that the alcoholic may be Everyman, Author Treat ironically seems to end up proving the opposite-that the alcoholic is a sectarian in a strange mystical brotherhood in which the only man who has the savvy to salvage a drunk is another drunk...
...week the British at Hong Kong seized 340 lbs. of opium on a plane that had just flown in from Laos. But the boys at the Snow Leopard were not disconcerted. Said Couscous contemptuously: "That was the work of pure amateurs. A few days before the shipment they were drunk in a Vientiane bar, and boasting about the killing they were going to make...
Unhappily, the team fell apart before Tom Morfit had a chance to jump. "I didn't know Scott was a great writer," Moore remembers now. "To me he was just a drunk. I'd show up at 7 o'clock, and he'd already be three-quarters in the bag." One night when Fitzgerald's well-oiled enthusiasm moved him to chase Moore's sister around the room, the collaboration ended for good...
...preach the Word. He especially charged him to baptize his city cousin, an idiot child whose schoolteacher father is a sweaty atheist. At the thought of this mission, young Tarwater is torn. An inner voice tells him that the old man was a fool or worse. He gets drunk, sets fire to the house, where the old man is still sitting dead at the breakfast table, and finally heads for the city...
...children of God lay sleeping." Author O'Connor tells this bizarre plot with her own brand of authority; her hard prose seems armed with staring, baleful eyes. The reader may shudder in distaste, but those eyes fix and hold him. And yet, while her handling of God-drunk backwoodsmen is based in religious seriousness, it seldom seems to rise above an ironic jape. It is this suggestion of the secure believer poking bitter fun at the confused and bedeviled that lingers in the mind after the tale is ended-rather than the occasional flashes of pity that alone make...