Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impatient with 47, and anxious to get down to live in Greenwich Village... The first [of two plays O'Neill wrote during the year] was inconspicuous, and the latter was labored and stiff. His worst fault, I think, was an ineptitude at dialogue, except when the speakers were raving drunk or profane...
...back and forth across the country for 308 pages, they meet at least a couple of hundred other real gone characters. Sometimes the boys work a little, or sleep with some cute chick, or steal cars, or get married, or hitch-hike, or get divorced; almost nightly they get drunk and/or take dope. Dean sets the pace, stealing five cars one night and sleeping with three girls another; understandably nobody can keep up, though most try hard enough...
What this country needs is a pushbutton to end all pushbuttons−to send the whole mess into one junk heap. The gadget-drunk public is the dupe of a gigantic industrial swindle geared to the plan of speeding the necessity of replacement. No more mechanical junk shall cross my threshold. I'm off for the hills, behind old Dobbin...
...Nobel and four Pulitzers) dramatist quipped about a figure, leaning against a lamppost in the picture's foreground, having "a bun on," was moved to reminisce: "In the old days, when I was born, a man−especially one from Kilkenny−went on a five-year drunk and finished by licking four cops, and then went home to raise hell because dinner was late...
...broken beer bottle. A man smashed his camera on the sidewalk when a flashbulb failed to fire. Eight nuns standing back from the curbside crowd waved their shy congratulations. Before the night ended, half a million Wisconsinites had cheered the champions, and 35 elbow-benders were in the drunk tank...