Word: elixir
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Hemingway and sit in a hotel room and bang away on a typewriter, constructing on paper a character who partakes in a struggle we ourselves are not part of. Or, naive college students, we can travel to Spain in an effort to take a draught of an elusive, transmogrifying elixir. In one case our hero is killed, in the other we lose our pants. Yet, in spite of ourselves, the dreams continue, and, as the end of the Franco era hastens, we catch the stronger strains of a guitar and glimpse smiles on the faces of the children who crowd...
Cases of beer and coolers provide spectators with very-much missed grandstands, while pints of beer at a nearby pub provide participants the pain-killing elixir they need after eight hours of tourney play...
...glass under the kitchen faucet and savor Moskva water straight. The citizens of Singapore and Amsterdam, too, will shortly be able to drink from their polluted rivers. Between the stream and the lip, in all these cases, is a remarkable process developed in France that changes effluent into elixir...
...innocent as Candide, he embarks on this quest. He plunges into war sates himself with sex, goads his father's discontented subjects to revolt and embarks on domesticity with a wealthy widow. But the elixir of life eludes him. After each venture he finds himself asking, in the words of Peggy Lee's song "Is that all there is?" Indeed, this Pippin might seem like something of a fool if John Rubinstein, son of the pianist Artur, had not imbued him with such a sweet and winning nature. His life, as related in this story, is more...
Work was a theme in most conversations. It was, for these people, an answer to boredom, an elixir for unhappiness, a builder of slumping character and, of course, bank accounts. Surgeon John Sonneland left Spokane mulling over the double dilemma of reluctant kids and make-work jobs. Dr. Sonneland worked as a kid, worked in college, works now with great...