Word: drunkenness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...heroes. World War II Flying Ace "Pappy" Boyington returned to take to the bottle, fall into debt and observe bitterly: "Show me a hero and I'll show you a bum." Marine Ira Hayes, one of the idolized flag raisers at Iwo Jima, died at 32 in a drunken stupor, frozen in the wintry outdoors of an Indian reservation. Similar strains tear at relatively unknown Congressional Medal of Honor winners as their wartime exploits dog them. Marine Johnny Basilone, decorated for bravery at Guadalcanal, was obsessed with the notion that someone else had done the deeds for which...
...MacNeil, the twelve-year-old daughter of a movie actress, begins to act peculiar. She urinates on the living room rug in front of company. She uses a crucifix as a dildo. She grows incredibly strong and becomes the prime suspect in the brute-force slaying of a lovable drunken movie director. Her schoolwork suffers...
...still live with the silly comfort of getting a degree. What attention I did honestly pay to specific courses was adequately paralleled by a commitment to a vaguely decadent night club existence. Life was literally split between truck drivers and tutors, shifty club owners and sharp section leaders, drunken middle-aged divorcees and liberated women. South Boston crackers and black militant intellectuals; and between crowds trying to relax and students brutally trying to compete, between songs that often meant something to my life and papers that often argued with it. But the Harvard world is no less real than...
...retirement briefly to work on the story. A transplanted South African, he recalls that he first encountered Australians as they passed through South Africa on their way to the Middle East during World War I: "My earliest memory is of watching, terrified, from an upper-story window as drunken, high-spirited, slouch-hatted Diggers brawled in Cape Town." After seven years running our Sydney bureau, he is now a confirmed Aussie...
...trick, I would suspect-while also managing to inject a certain amount of pathos in his position as the dumb mutant whose momentary aspirations only serve to force him lower to the earth. And all the while, Richard Kravitz, playing the jester Trinculo, and W. C. Fuller as the drunken Stephano, contributed a number of nice comic bits without, thankfully, appearing to strain for the laughs...