Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...every assertion is tinged with mockery. Although he claims to have seen the light, he is on a spree of destruction, not salvation. He wants to deprive his pals of their last shred of dignity, their dreams of resurrecting the past. Hickey was always a sometime drunk, still connected to the world of work and family. As he sees himself slipping, he tries to take everyone with him. He hurtles toward the unmasked truth and hopes that seeing it will turn him to stone...
...could try--and have tried--many rational machinations to justify his death, but they will all fail. I could try to write a work of art to put his death in some sort of perspective, but I don't have the talent. I could write a glorious indictment of drunk driving in this country and the mentality that fosters it, but statistics won't explain why he died. I could rant and rave against God (or no God), but that would not bring me any closer to the big WHY, a question everyone will have to face and will fail...
...Robert Burford, 62, Bureau of Land Management director; she for public drunkenness and he for driving while intoxicated; in Arlington, Va. After Robert was detained, police say, Anne demanded to see him, became abusive, was arrested and put in jail, where she scratched a female deputy. Said the sheriff: "Drunk-in-public charges are not very common. You almost have to ask to be arrested...
...reason masters might be afraid of such action is their liability for any student who got drunk at their party and injured himself or another person. Of course they have been liable in the past--for legal and illegal drinkers. There is no additional cause for concern; students are every bit as likely or unlikely to hurt themselves drinking as they were before, and the masters' and University's possible liability has not changed. Moreover, for a University with Harvard's resources and relatively clean record, liability insurance of the type obtained by the University of Massachusetts should be available...
...clips are most effective because they reveal Kerouac's conservative character, both politically and socially. A scene from Buckley's Firing Line is particularly tragic. With merciless interviewing poise, Buckley casually questions the seriousness of Kerouac's writing and his tenuous connecting of religion and literature. Kerouac, obviously very drunk, answers Buckley on the air with a string of babblings on Buddhism. Ultimately, Kerouac makes a fool of himself, at the same time highlighting his own inability to fit in with the chic literati...