Word: drunkenness
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...first year in Japan, the open, young American met, by chance, both Yasunari Kawabata, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and the great Zen scholar, D.T. Suzuki; and a little afterward he found himself on a set where Akira Kurosawa was directing Toshiro Mifune in Drunken Angel. Very soon, every foreigner who landed in Tokyo?Somerset Maugham, Tom Wolfe, Richard Avedon, Philip Johnson?was calling on him to be shown around. Richie's shrewd, but forgiving, fascination with human quirks there gives us Truman Capote buying an "imitation geisha wig" and Kurosawa taking in a Fellini film without...
...Drunken Host...
...walk in the party, and a stranger assaults me with a hearty handshake stricken with drunken joy. Here is The Drunken Host. He is drinking beer from his own special stein, a ritual he has performed for the past seven parties he has thrown. He introduces himself to me and asks me my name, a ritual we have performed for the past seven parties he has thrown. The Drunken Host is a conundrum: so friendly, so outgoing, so caring towards everyone. Yet, The Drunken Host will never remember you, what you major in or that you don?...
...will have an effect on the attitude of the revelers. At Yankee Stadium, the police officers that I encountered calmly acted as if they were in total control of the situation. With cops and undercover officers throughout the stadium, the NYPD took a proactive response to the possibility of drunken escapades...
...what was missing on Wednesday night? Why was our celebration of our status as mostly temporary residents in Red Sox Nation somehow insufficient? I think we were primed for something more important than celebration, as we crowded Harvard Yard. The drunken guy inviting us to go break shit articulated a collective, inchoate desire for change—for some sort of change. Students cannot gather in the street, flanked by police in riot gear, without summoning up ghosts of Paris in ’68, of Tiananmen Square, of Kent State. And compared with these ghosts, we seemed awfully callow...