Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...substitute target. Every psychologist knows that a man might beat his child because he cannot beat his boss. And a man may even murder because he feels rejected or "alienated." But what leads one man in such a situation to kill and another merely to get drunk is a question psychologists have never really answered. There is no doubt that violence has a cathartic effect, and the pressures that cause it must find an outlet of one kind or another. (Japan's Matsushita Electric Co. has set up a dummy of the foreman that workers can beat...
...scratch themselves by rubbing against autos, with unfortunate results for the bodywork. Some smash down boundary fences, uproot trees and chase African herdsmen; occasionally, they kill someone. Whether they turn vicious or merely playful, all of them sway and totter about a great deal, as if they were drunk. In fact, they are. Once a year at this time, Kruger Park's elephants go on one of the world's biggest binges...
...elephant can eat enough fruit in a day to supply a whole village. Then the elephant goes to a water hole and drinks gallons of water. The result: its stomach immediately becomes a huge still in which the fruit ferments and forms alcohol. The elephant becomes hopelessly drunk, reeling around wildly and often standing up on its hind legs to reach more fruit. Each year the park's rangers have to shoot about 30 elephants who become mean drunks, and tests of their blood show a staggering alcoholic content. Most of the elephants go away to sleep off their...
...page report, the President's Commission on Law Enforcement and Administration of Justice recently condemned the legal handling of drunkenness as a total mess. In most cities, anti-drunk laws affect only the helpless and the homeless, never affluent alcoholics. In a nightly ritual, police skim the derelicts off Skid Row, parade them before a magistrate and offer such unscientific evidence as "staggering gait" that often overlooks other ailments. Rarely represented by counsel, the bleary defendant is invariably stuffed into the "tank" long enough to get somewhat sobered up-then released and rearrested, often hundreds of times before...
...reams of it, in relentless iambic pentameter. It was dourly didactic, endlessly hortatory: "Come, come, I'll show unto thy sense,/ Industry hath its recompense." Some of it was inadvertently funny: "Was ever gem so rich found in thy trunk/ As Egypt's wanton Cleopatra drunk?" Yet when her work was published in London in 1650 as The Tenth Muse, Lately Sprung Up In America, it became one of the "most vendible books in England," and when its author died in 1672 her eulogist said: "Time will a poet raise/Born under better Stars, shall sing thy praise...