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...alltime world long-run record, however, is still held by the Los Angeles Theatre Mart's 1933 revival of The Drunkard, which closed in 1959 after 9,477 performances...
...Year's Train. Everyone is kind. Hearty Dr. Gerald Gilley and his wife Pauline, who looks "like a lily on a long stalk," welcome Levin to Cascadia State College-the only one of 52 U.S. colleges that responded favorably to his application for a teaching job. An ex-drunkard and a repeated failure. Levin is humbly grateful. At 30, he sees himself as a "man still running after last year's train, far behind in the world...
Worthington, Ohio, Playhouse on the Green: The Drunkard...
...years, Japan has been a drunkard's paradise. Public Law 39, passed in 1907, declared that a man under the influence of alcohol must be considered to be "temporarily unsound of mind," thereby exonerating him of legal responsibility for any crimes committed when drunk. As a result, Japan's tipsy tipplers break store windows, kick dents in car fenders, insult passing women, even commit murder, without fear of lawsuit or punishment. (One jurist estimates that an average of ten murderers a year go scot-free because...
...idolizing his father as a paragon of power and virtues. The process is severest in the sons of outstandingly successful men: their anxiety neuroses are as notorious as the traditional case of the preacher's son becoming a drunkard. A career girl is shredded by the need to excel father or mother or both, and for her the problem may be complicated by Oedipal feelings toward father...