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...buffs remember the 1920s as the strange season of triumph for American literature. Ernest Hemingway. F. Scott Fitzgerald. Gertrude Stein--all American expatriates--wrote tales that captivated not only American readers, but also audiences worldwide. In that decade, William Faulkner published The Sound and the Fury, and Eugene O'Neill won the Pulitzer Prize in drama three times...
Dardis' thesis is a fascinating one, but it is also one that he does not adequately support. The book convincingly details the drinking of Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner and O'Neill--there is little doubt in the readers' minds that all the authors are alcoholics...
Dardis' facts are usually more complete, but the conclusions he draws from them are often just as forced. His arguments for the artistic merits of O'Neill's sobriety rely on circular logic. If O'Neill wrote badly sober, Dardis would maintain that alcohol was still in his system and clouded his thinking. If he wrote well drunk, it was a fluke...
...cigarettes from 21 cents to 33 cents and on an average bottle of liquor from 81 cents to $1.05, and imposing a host of license and fee increases. Even the cost of dying will triple: a death certificate goes from $5 to $15. Connecticut's Democratic Governor William O'Neill has sliced spending $150 million, and expects to close a remaining $97 million deficit mainly with sin taxes and a 15% surcharge on corporations...
...Speaker can be compared only with the President and the Chief Justice of the United States," wrote Neil MacNeil in his book on the House, Forge of Democracy. "He has been the elect of the elect." That is the way Sam Rayburn, John McCormack, Carl Albert and Tip O'Neill thought and acted...