Word: drunken
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches." See CINEMA, Love in Kazansas...
Meanwhile the hero's stupid, insensitive, greedy, cunning, loudmouthed, backslapping, drunken and even crippled slob of a father (Pat Hingle), the all-American marketype of the guy with the big business and the teentsy soul, reaches down to the bottom of his heart and comes up with a moldy collection of pragmaterialistic cliches: "Son, don't you go too far with that girl. If she gets pregnant, you'll have to marry her and then you couldn't go to Yale. What you need-heh, heh-is another kind of girl on the side...
Wedded to all the Victorian proprieties, the widowed Mrs. Alving keeps her son ignorant of the drunken and dissolute life of his captain father. She stifles her longstanding passion for her minister, Pastor Manders. She never tells her maid that the girl is the illegitimate daughter of Captain Alving. Gradually, the fagade of respectability is stripped away-most cruelly by seeing her son in the last ravages of inherited syphilis. In belated, horrifying self-recognition, Mrs. Alving realizes that to save her face she has lost her soul...
...Brown-McCarthy fight actually went far beyond a dispute about drunken drivers. As a veteran California assemblyman and state senator. McCarthy is a powerful Democrat whose ambitions probably do not stop short of the Governor's mansion. Brown long ago promised McCarthy the job of state attorney general -just as soon as he could appoint the incumbent. Stanley Mosk. to the California supreme court. But, as usual, Brown dithered, reconsidered-and backed away from his promise. McCarthy's reaction was his party-splitting resignation...
...ignore what they insisted was the reek of whisky seeping through the glass doors from the men's bar on one side and the smell of champagne from the elegant Garden Court on the other. Loud and often, they drowned out the sound of what they feared was drunken babbling by raising their voices in song...