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...parallel shift in the culture suggests that Clinton-era values are no longer America's. Though a baby boomer, Bush rejects the instant-gratification ethic embraced by Clinton, the nation's first baby boomer President. Bush went from party-hearty frat boy to hard liquor--drinking Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (until he shaped up in his 40s) without stopping to dabble in the counterculture or go anywhere in a VW bus. He often laments not being one of the Greatest Generation he so admires (although he was no more up front about not going to Vietnam than...
Third, the concern about hard liquor being substituted for beer is a valid one, regardless of Lewis’ arguments to the contrary. He states, “There is no reason to think that students faced with cans and hard liquor will favor the hard stuff.” Why is that? He offers no reasoning, and I for one, knowing Harvard students and how they drink, would argue the contrary: faced with higher costs of drinking and less ease in obtaining beer, why not just fill a water bottle with some concoction of Rubinoff and head...
...Grog has been the standard drink of seamen since the 17th century, when the British navy began to trade with the Americas. Rum was one of the gems of the New World, and captains gave their sailors a ration of the liquor. A vice-admiral nicknamed “Old Grog” began a policy of diluting the sailors’ rations of rum with water. He mixed in sugar and cinnamon to add flavor and threw in some lime juice to help ward off scurvy. Shortly thereafter, Navy Grog was served twice a day on deck and became...
Dodd’s no stranger to making hooch. Back in his home state of Tennessee, Dodd has experimented with making liquor in homemade stills. Among his potables: a vodka that was “too watery” and a whiskey that “had the consistency of a milkshake...
Espinoza said he hopes to obtain a liquor license from the city in six months so that he can serve wine and beer...