Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...write some fine lyric poetry ("Come live with me and be my love"), a long narrative poem (Hero and Leander), and four superb poetic dramas: Tamburlaine, Doctor Faustus, The Jew of Malta and Edward II. A militant atheist, in flight from arrest, he was killed at 29 during a drunken brawl in a riverside tavern near London, probably a political victim of Queen Elizabeth's Secret Service...
...Hemingway-type hero is no Jake, no Lieut. Henry, but the saddest of fictional sad sacks, called, of all things, Tyree Shelby. Soon Hemingway-type philosophy is being fed to him. Says Shelby's drunken C.O.: "You can't escape the sonsofbitches and the only choice you got is between sonsofbitches." Does the Hemingway manner work? Paraphrasing the remark Churchill is supposed to have made to his son Randolph ("Haven't you learned yet that I put more into my speeches than brandy?"), Papa Hemingway might well remind young (30) Novelist Hoffman that more goes into...
Fluid Drive. In Hoboken. N.J., Bar Owner Albert W. Dreisbach was convicted of drunken driving, fined $200 despite his defense plea: "I just had my car winterized, and the fumes must have stayed on my person...
...French version, and no unseemly cries of "Take it off!" from rows of bald heads. "The French," explains the Crazy Horse's Scottish dance director, "are cerebral. They have to have something to think about." Some of the thinking variations now going on in Paris : a drunken bride takes off her clothing in desultory fashion as she awaits her new husband; a strip-quiz in which each correct answer gives the audience participant a right to take off one garment from the girl in the spotlight. One nightclub promised a strip to the accompaniment of suitable verses from Baudelaire...
Dazed & Damaged. The camera moved swiftly on for glimpses of drunken sots on Skid Row and a clinical study of alcoholics in Connecticut's Blue Hills sanatorium, ranging from the treatment of violent arrivals through the slow repairing of the dazed and damaged to the faintly hopeful prognosis of alcoholics about to be released. The most pitiful shots were morning-after scenes in a Philadelphia Magistrates' Court, where the drunk and disorderly were up for sentencing; the most unnerving came when, back in Moriarty's bar, Announcer Grauer hoisted his highball glass and took a final swig...