Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reportedly considering filing suit on the grounds of false arrest, assault and battery, and violation of the civil rights act. There is also some possibility that he may bring defamation of character suits against two city policemen, one against the arresting officer who allegedly charged that Roberts was drunk, the other against an officer who called Roberts, a Southerner, a "niggerkilling rebel." Roberts is a member of the American Civil Liberties Union and one of the founding members of the Harvard Civil Rights Co-ordinating Committee...
...pantomimic accountant of the laughably saddening costs of being human. Mimicking a dynamiter, he blows himself up at pre cisely the moment when he is casually admiring his technical know-how. As a partygoer, he pirouettes through all the socia graces, only to get stupidly, staggering!) drunk. With his toes seemingly reading a tightrope in faltering braille, he teeters across the high wire, but only after the audience is made to know that courage can be the vanity of cowards. In the most affecting sketch of the evening at the New York City Center, Marceau plays a mask maker trying...
...fiction, short though it is, cannot be slighted. Mark Mirsky seems to be much more at home writing Singer than ever he was last year when writing Malamud; his "Muzzel, the Drunk of Hoamer Street" is a smooth and quite evocative little sketch and stands on its own very well, even though it is but an excerpt from his "novel in progress," The Tales of Blue Hill Avenue...
Scotch consumption in France was held down by miniscule import quotas until 1960. But in 1961 the French imported 841,459 gal., and by the end of this year will have drunk considerably more. Cognac, however, is not on the rocks: during the same period its worldwide sales jumped from about 9 million to some 13 million bottles...
...Sinclair the obvious answer to this sort of thing was to found a Socialist colony, which he did in 1906 in a former private school in New Jersey named Helicon Hall. It was an improvement on the cabin, but troubles persisted. Drunk artists turned up; the press wrote stories about free love. Young Sinclair Lewis quit Yale to work there as a furnace tender for a month and proposed to Upton's blonde secretary (she turned him down). The school building burned down, and the Sinclairs joined another colony in Arden, Del., where one idealist turned up with...