Word: drunkards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...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...
...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...
...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...
...academic renown and personal tragedy back to Dugton again--by summoning up a series of scenes from his past. The novel, like his entire life, represents an attempt to come to terms with his roots, to discover in the sturdy consistency of his mother and the recklessness of his drunkard father a source of self-knowledge and self-mastery...