Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reveal this lack of perspective when you start pleturing virtue in rags and vice "impeccably dressed." When you pass moral judgment on that famous old institution, drunken college students. When you are outraged that anyone might say "Bomb Hanoi," whether serious or not. When you condemn a protest for being, as one female SDS student said, "not according to procedure...
...know-nothing who finds sincerity embarassing." The great bulk of the crowd was made up of people who had nothing to do, who came to a frivolous anti-protest protest. While the Lampoon was in control most of them were laughing. Ballooning the actions of one student into a "drunken rally," however, can only be construed as careless reporting or poorly couched slander...
...serious counter-demonstration by supporters of the Administration's policy in Vietnam, or a well-executed parody of the SDS demonstration, might have been appropriate. But Friday's drunken rally, by students whose credo allows no room for commitment of any sort, was repugnant...
...volatile young officer (played with unwarranted assurance by Singer Tommy Sands, Sinatra's son-in-law). The first meeting of G.I. and Jap ends with some cute business of swapping cigarettes for fish. There is a brief skirmish over a boat, but peace follows when Sinatra, as a drunken Irish medic, sobers up to treat the enemy wounded. "I'm a Band-Aid man," he quips, preparing to amputate a Japanese...
...those writers who take up their country's venality as their cross. The closest U.S. equivalent of Dead Souls is Herman Melville's The Confidence Man. Gogol's confidence man is Chichikov (Vladimir Belokurov), an on-the-make bureaucrat who haggles with miserly and drunken aristocrats for their dead serfs (listed on the government tax rolls as alive) so that he may pose as a propertied man, float a mortgage loan, and make a fashionable marriage. Just as murder is war in miniature, Gogol's Chichikov is a comic common cold symbolizing all the perennial tragic...