Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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LAST WEEK, Courtney Steel, the 17-year-old student body president of the Spence School in New York, was killed by a drunk driver...
What makes this response so astounding is that the cause of the accident couldn't be more patent. The suspect, Brian Confoy, alledgedly got rip-roaring drunk, seated himself behind the wheel of his car, and drove with reckless abandon, mowing down Ms. Steel in the process...
...CITY'S REACTION is an all too frightening example of a superstitious response to a complex social problem. To say that drunk driving caused the death is to admit that the tragedy is inexplicable. To blame the victim, on the other hand, is to reassure ourselves that we live in a just and harmonious world, a world in which no one who follows the proper path is victimized. Therefore, New Yorkers must believe that the real enemy is not the drunk driver, but the teenage drinker, the proverbial sinner upon whom God wreaks vengeance...
...drive everybody around them to distraction. One of the most famous is the precocious nine-year old heroine of Victory over Japan--for which Gilchrist won the 1984 American Book Award--Rhoda Manning. She is nasty--a smart, nasty child with a wild imagination. But the women in Drunk with Love are too flashy, too angry and too loud. They don't seem to suffer from living; they are born misfits, albeit amusing and erudite...
TOBIAS WOLFF'S Back in the World melodiously fleshes out the improbably festive-sounding trinity of titles of these contemporary short story collections: I Am Having an Adventure, Drunk with Love and Back in the World. This collection however doesn't commit itself to either the confused soul-searching that goes on in Klass' book or the heady hothouse passions that obscure some disturbing authorial attitudes in Drunk with Love...