Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the crimes most heinous in the eyes of the University are those dishonesty or irresponsibility. Cheating and plagiarism, of course, usually result in an unexpected vacation -- and quite often a permanent one. Drunken driving bring the same punishment, as participation in any sort of demonstration. Don't bother trying to lie your way out of trouble, either; it just adds to the punishment, and the University seldom bothers with questions unless it already knows all the answers...
...escape Stalin's barbs; once, recalls Djilas, it was a waiter whom Stalin forced to share a toast at a diplomatic reception as a "grotesque expression of Stalin's regard for the common people." Most surprising to Djilas were the Soviet rulers' big appetites, appeased at drunken, all-night banquets. Before one such repast, at Stalin's villa outside Moscow. Djilas met Molotov in the basement toilet. Explained the Foreign Minister: "We call this unloading before loading." The book's big point is not that Stalin was a revolting tyrant, but that the Communist system...
...forces in the Congo recruited for "notably non-warlike" face what Halberstam called "the most dangerous army on earth": 20, 30, or 40 thousand Congolese soldiers--nobody knows how many--who have arms and nothing else." is nil, and holiday nights that "drunken, marauding, raping of soldiers" are a peril to the Congolese people...
...will take him ten years to forget. But, pedantry aside, Bacchus and his father Silenus are two really engaging comic characters you won't forget: Bacchus (who is crowned with myrtle, but wears shades and is hip) is William Keough, who is almost as good as Allan Mandel, the drunken old God who gives imitations of Mars trapped in the net at parties, and who chases sea nymphs. At the play's end, Midas--a tragically wiser king--is standing dolefully orating about life and aspirations; and back of him, the two cavorting Gods dance their way offstage, Bacchus still...
...last November, Fidel chortled that "it must have hit Washington like a 65-megaton bomb." But now Castro fired his own damp squib: "Arosemena was on some occasions completely intoxicated from Monday to Sunday. The reactionaries took photographs of this señor in the midst of feast and drunken carousals. Any day, in one of these carousals the military will grab him and take him to an embassy [where] he will wake up. He has been more cowardly than Frondizi." Then Castro shifted his glare to an old foe, Venezuelan President Romulo Betancourt, who recently sharply criticized Argentina...