Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dire point of view, the book jests and jostles with life, and really belongs with the sardonic comic charades of Swift, Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, and Ben Jonson's Volpone. Like them, it is a kind of cosmic hangover suffered by a man who-having drunk overfull of the human race-swears off mankind. Melville's nausea ran so deep that he did not write another novel for 32 years. In the end he did make his peace with the universe, a serene and affirmative one, in the classic pages of his final masterpiece, Billy Budd...
Saturation Point. In Fresno, Calif., ex-Convict Manuel Eurich, 35, was sentenced to from 1 to 14 years in prison despite his plea that he had written worthless checks only after getting drunk in a bar while sitting out a thunderstorm when he was on his way to a meeting of Alcoholics Anonymous...
...flask-owner was momentarily startled, but managed to stutter: "Are you the Budd Schulberg?" He managed to stutter it four or five times, in fact, before he was satisfied that the man who had just drunk form his flask was Budd Schulberg, had indeed written The Disenchanted and On the Waterfront, was currently planning tow rite a story on the Carnival for Sports Illustrated, and had dropped in to visit his old fraternity...
...many cases we don't send a summons unless the person has collected four or five tickets," McCarthy said. "Most policemen are drunk with power, but I don't like to give out too many fines...
These two drunk scenes are one reason-June Lockhart is another-why The Grand Prize ranks among the season's pleasanter also-rans. Playwright Alexander has a real gift for a funny line, though no gift whatever for hewing to it. Writing amiable nonsense, he can doubtless be pardoned for never sufficiently thickening his plot; his sin is how sadly he waters his prattle. He permits far too much second-rate-and secondhand-jesting; he should trade in his rubber stamp for a pruning knife. But The Grand Prize merits the classic praise the curate gave his egg: parts...