Word: drunks
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...will be only one-quarter Black, you're grandchildren one-eighth Black. And, "the minister continues with a beatific smile, "why after that they'll hardly be Black at all." Blacksmith smiles. He eats his dinner and defers pleasantly to the minister. That night he goes out and gets drunk in one of the Aborigine shack towns. Somehow one senses he knows the absurdity of the game...
Santini isn't his real name; it's the nom de guerre (literally) of "Bull" Meecham, Marine colonel, pilot extraordinaire, drunk and practical joker, outrageous egomaniac, and father of a large family which he likes to run like a boot camp. Ben, his oldest boy, is a gentle soul who's beginning to chafe under the discipline, to say nothing of his father's determination to mold him in his own macho image...
...surviving letters by Evelyn Waugh, Editor Mark Amory wondered if the author's handwriting was difficult to read. A friend reassured him: "No, no, you see he wrote his letters in the morning, when he was sober. He wrote his diary at night when he was drunk." On the evidence of the 840 letters collected here, Waugh sometimes tippled while he corresponded, but the contrast between this book and his Diaries (published in 1977) is as vivid as that between a buoyant raconteur and a mean lush. Here is Waugh effusively thanking Harold Acton for sending his latest book...
...wavered, but neither did it save him from dipsomaniacal binges. He asked Author Nancy Mitford, a favorite correspondent: "Did I ever come to visit you again after my first sober afternoon. If so, I presume I owe you flowers." As he ruefully described the times he was "d.d." (disgustingly drunk) in his letters, Waugh made himself one of his better comic characters: "I got to my train d.d. and it was the Cheltenham Flier full of respectable stockbrokers . . . and I walked down the train picking up all the mens hats and looking inside and saying: 'People...
...refuses to fly. He does not drive. He was once stopped by the police in Los Angeles for the highly suspect act of walking at night through his residential neighborhood. He was also detained by the Irish Garda Siochdna (Civil Guard) for being "drunk, and in charge of a bicycle." Ray Bradbury would seem, from his prodigious output, to be the most sedentary of men. He is, in fact, one of the most peripatetic. By bus, boat, train and car, he has thoroughly explored the U.S., Mexico, Ireland and Europe. By means of his imagination, he has penetrated the farthest...