Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concludes with "There and Back," Trotsky's account of his Siberian escape in a reindeer sled driven by a drunken peasant. With politics temporarily given a back seat, the memoir is a literary achievement of great quality - proving again that there is nothing like a subzero dash over the snow to bring out the best in a Russian writer...
Part of the problem, says Institute Director Morris Chafetz, is that "America has been laughing at drunks. Yet studies show that countries where drunken behavior is socially acceptable have a lot of alcohol problems, while those that frown on drunks (for example, Israel, Italy and China) have the opposite experience." For this reason, the institute has just mounted an advertising campaign to promote moderate as opposed to excessive drinking. Warns one typical ad: "If you need a drink to be social, that's not social drinking...
...Claire, whom he had met on Ibiza, died in a car crash in Monterey, Calif., in the late '50s, when she was eight months pregnant. The wife of Novelist Dennis Murphy was also killed in the crash, and Irving, who had often been unfaithful to Claire, had a drunken fistfight with Murphy over who was to blame for the accident...
Despite the obvious costs to the companies, lawyers found it hard to see what civil damages have to do with criminal penalties. Indeed, one critic has compared Judge Barker's decision to letting a drunken driver off with only a nominal fine after he has paid the hospital-or funeral-costs...
...abbit" Angstrom once yearned for freedom. One night in '59, he went out for cigarettes and never returned. He fled: from a drunken, child-like wife, and a dank, frame-house row-home apartment. From wealthy in-laws, and cloyingly supportive parents. From the town of Mt. Judge, Pa., once greener, once marked by the men that lived in it; from the city of Brewer, its asphalt and industries. He left a baby son, Nelson, and the promise of a second, unborn, child...