Word: ginning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pennsylvania Dutch country. It also succeeds in the tricky business of interweaving the self-questioning of a troubled young father undergoing analysis with a description of the significance of the Eucharist. At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie could easily have been just another set piece about a raffish gin mill in which just about every type turns up but the anonymous and unseen narrator. Actually, it is a tense little moral essay on true and false innocence, demonstrated in terms of a hat with dancing birds on it. The hat has been made by a homosexual for a fancy-dress...
...Wilson cannot hold down wage increases in a period when his other taxation and monetary measures are taking hold, all credibility in the value of the pound will be undercut; British export costs, swollen by excessive wage gains, will rise, slowing foreign sales of everything from cars and gin to razor blades and woolens. Particularly because his is a Labor government, Wilson's ability to rein in wage demands is almost the litmus test of his ability to set his economy in order...
...board rooms. In The Suicide of a Nation?, Writer and Critic Goronwy Rees reported attending a regular directors' meeting of an engineering company outside London. "The office was richly furnished with thick carpets, an Annigoni painting, and extremely expensive antique furniture. Deliberations were sweetened by drafts of gin and tonic drunk out of beakers of cut glass. The discussion followed no conceivably rational pattern; a large part of it was taken up by the sales director's amatory reminiscences of the world capitals he had most recently visited. There were frequent interruptions, by telephone, from the directors...
...Hara. John Cheever, who writes of middle age with autumnal sadness, is its prose laureate. In O Youth and Beauty!, he tells of the ritual of Cash Bentley, a former track star turned 40 who, when the Saturday-night suburban party was guttering out between the empty gin bottles and the full ashtrays, would pile the furniture together in clumps and at a friend's revolver shot, go hurdling over...
...college chemistry major, it can be concocted in any laboratory containing sufficient equipment. In New York State, which for a year has had a statute making possession of LSD a jail offense, getting the drug is as easy as it once was to buy a quart of bathtub gin...