Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lush, Be a Lady. In Conquer Your Alcoholism, Edward J. McGoldrick, billed as "Your Confidential Adviser" and actually director of the New York City Bureau of Alcoholic Therapy, is tough and blunt. "You are not sick," he snarls in Groove One. "You are a flop, a failure, a drunk." But in a companion volume called Tormented Women, the Truth About the Female Alcoholic, he becomes almost gallant, sympathetically acknowledging how difficult it must have been for his listener to buy the record. "You probably said it was for a friend. You couldn't allow even a total stranger...
...became convinced that Theodore Dreiser had plagiarized part of a book Dorothy had written about Russia. At a dinner attended by Dreiser, Lewis got drunk, refused to make a speech, explaining: "I do not care to speak in the presence of a man who has stolen 3,000 words from my wife's book." Dreiser sought him out afterward, demanded that Lewis make the statement again or take it back. Lewis made it again. "So I smacked him," recounted Dreiser later with relish. "And I asked him if he wanted to say it again. He said it again...
...neighborhood bar, the buxom waitress first tried Russian, then German on the foreign visitor. "American? Don't talk politics with my customers. They're too drunk to know what they're saying, and there's an F.DJ. [Free German Youth] in the corner...
...final question-whether the movie is art or arty-is probably answered by the character and background of Alain Resnais himself. He sometimes talks like an undergraduate who has got drunk on The Alexandria Quartet: "The film is about the reality which is made up of the appearances of reality," he has said. "You don't know if it is present, past, or even future." But he is much more than a sidewalk spieler. He is a grounded artist, seeking new ways to find what he has called "the mass audience which is weary of explanatory scenes, dialogue whose...
...glint for the calm smile of a mere lover of humanity. And the parable of the Fat Lady may seem intellectually underweight. But Zooey's lyric rant is not a seminarian's thesis; it is a gift of love received from Seymour and transmitted to a distraught, prayer-drunk, 20-year-old girl. Apart from questioning the depth of this message, critics?notably Alfred Kazin, who apologizes solemnly for having to say it?have suggested that the Glass children are too cute and too possessed by self-love. The charge is unjust. They are too clearly shadowed by death, even...