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...land all his own--he walks through the house nude to experience the joy of ownership--two old cars, a chunk of desert land sold to him by a con man, and more debt than he can handle. The dream turns into the nightmare, Weston turns into a drunkard, and the refrigerator stands empty...

Author: By Jonathan B. Propp, | Title: Death of the American Dream | 4/18/1980 | See Source »

...Mancuso, was a former lieutenant who had injured his back during parachute training; he could neither remain in the Army nor look skyward for a popup. For pitchers they had Denny Galehouse, who had kept his deferment by working during the week in a war plant, and a brawling drunkard named Sigmund ("Jack") Jakucki...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Oddball | 7/3/1978 | See Source »

...theater group has an advisory board of faculty and administrators. W.C. Burriss Young '55, associate dean of freshmen and one of the board members, said yesterday he believes "Shakespeare is something we should have here." Young has a cameo role in "Measure for Measure," playing a drunkard...

Author: By Nancy A. Tentindo, | Title: Shakespeare Group Plans for Premiere | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...wide public notice he received persuaded him to seek new roles for his "abnormal personality." He spent three years working at various blue-collar jobs for a 1966 expose of the squalor and drudgery that can afflict industrial workers in affluent West Germany. He posed as a drunkard and later a mental patient to uncover prejudice and hypocrisy among government social agencies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Great Impostor | 10/24/1977 | See Source »

...They remember feeling unwanted or embarrassed-often by the clothes and manners of Sunday-best services. Recalls an Oregon housewife: "I kind of felt put down." Some blacks sense white prejudice. And then there are those whose lives became linked with unacceptable behavior: a woman lately married to a drunkard, a homosexual, a topless waitress in a Florida...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Looking from the Inside Out | 10/3/1977 | See Source »

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