Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...before an explanation was found. All four patients had been out on a mushroom hunt. They were too knowing to have picked any of the obviously poisonous species; most of what they had picked were inky caps (Coprinus atramentarius), and after a meal of inky caps, these four had drunk beer...
...apocryphal Judith was a pious and beautiful Jewish widow who got the Assyrian commander Holofernes drunk in his tent, cut off his head and saved the people of Israel. Giraudoux's Judith, enchantingly played by Rosemary Harris, is a rich, pampered, articulate minx who means to sacrifice her virginity as an act of personal grandeur. The total modernity of heroine and play is that Judith is as brimful of self-consciousness as she is barren of faith. In a moment of mortal peril among enemy underlings, she calls on Holofernes, not Jehovah, to save...
...seamen's employment, the Supreme Court has constantly expanded the right to "maintenance and cure." That right theoretically ends with willful misconduct, such as the contraction of venereal dis ease, but the court has held that seamen are "in the service of the ship" even when falling-down drunk ashore. In one famous case, a tipsy sailor tumbled out of a dance-hall window in Naples and broke his leg. Another dived into a dry dock a mile away from his ship in Palermo and was permanently disabled. Both casualties sued their shipowners for complete care...
...strength of Author Eastlake's design is in the massing of details and moments-bizarre, farcical, obscene, recondite, but always vividly pictured -into a whole that is truly tragic. There are drunk scenes that spin with laughter and nausea. There are battle scenes crackling with the unreality of sudden death. And at the end, the Germans scale the castle walls, while the gargoyles scream and drops of blood blossom like roses. Superbly and movingly, the men of the absurd 314th Replacement Cadre die. For what? Perhaps four hours' stemming of the German onslaught...
With his usual compulsive need for self-abasement, Mailer explains what had happened. Partly, he reports, his near crack-up occurred because he had drunk too much. But the largest and (if this were not Mailer talking) least believable reason was that he had opposed Conservative William Buckley in a formal public debate on the night before the fight. Mailer had prepared seriously for the debate, he says, and it was clear that he had won. Friends said so. Then came the next day's New York Times, which reported the debate frivolously and passed the result...