Word: drunkenness
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Theron's life veers sharply away from academic drudgery when he happens to stumble on a drunken bum in a bathroom stall at Suffolk Downs. The derelict tells him to bet on "Jesus Saves," and for the hell of it. Theron puts $250 on the filly at 127 to I odds-- and suddenly finds himself up $31,000, or "half again what [he] earned in a year." Wesley College, "according to its own smug formula, paid part in money and part in prestige...
Kenan is a drunken academic past his prime--his office is said to smell of urine and sex--who surpasses any picture of the worst fate of old tenured professors. Reeves's juicy portrayal of Kenan may feed many a Cantabridgian imagination, particularly the Harvard faculty gossip-minded...
...drinking. The decree raises the drinking age from 18 to 21, delays the daily opening of liquor stores by three hours, calls for a gradual cut in vodka production and an eventual ban on port, which the Soviets consume in huge quantities. The measure also prescribes harsh penalties for drunken driving, drinking in public, serving alcohol to minors and brewing moonshine...
...rates raised from $18,000 to $58,000 a year, a strong incentive not to serve drunks. In New Jersey, homeowners are worrying about suits from drunk-driving accidents. The state supreme court ruled last year that social hosts can be held liable for damage done by their drunken guests...
Boston Correspondent Timothy Loughran was amazed by the radical shift in attitude toward alcohol when he returned to the U.S. last year after four years in Central America. "The newspapers were filled with articles on tougher drunken-driving legislation," he says. "Roadblocks that I equated with military searches for antigovernment guerrillas were being used by U.S. police to catch violators. And everyone was drinking wine, mineral water and fruit juices...