Word: morrises
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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For those who are susceptible, U.S. society offers powerful temptations. Ob serves NIAAA'S Morris Chafetz: "There are houses where they don't even say anything to you when you come in the door before they ask, 'What will you have to drink?' " He also notes...
by JAN MORRIS 174 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. $5.95.
In 1972, at the age of 46, James Morris put his finances in order, resigned from his club (the Travellers in London), divorced his wife of more than 20 years, and moved into the house of another woman. So stale and sad a marital caper would normally raise no eyebrows...
The pre-Casablanca James Morris seemed one of the least likely people on earth-possibly excepting Joe Namath-who would want to start life anew in a skirt. A brilliant writer, celebrated and comfortably off, he was the apparently happy father of four children. Morris had been an intelligence officer...
When he turned to literature, he raised travel writing to the level of art (Cities, The World of Venice), branched skillfully into history (Pax Britannica), and once turned a bespoke book on, of all things, the World Bank (The Road to Huddersfield) into one of the more memorable popular essays...