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...minds of many youngsters, bars are still where the action is. "For the unattached, the singles who are still looking, there are few viable alternatives to pubs," says Roger Dunham, a sociologist at the University of Miami, Fla. "Even though there is a general trend toward temperance, there is something about a pub--the drinking, the relaxation...
...Irish, counter to the stereotype, are the European community's most abstemious tipplers, consuming less than 2 gal. of alcohol per capita annually. In Britain, where the corner pub is a second home and a pint is considered a birthright, 95% of all adults in England, Scotland and Wales are drinkers. Beer consumption is down slightly, however, due to high unemployment and increased taxes on alcohol. In West Germany, beer intake has tripled over three decades, to 9 billion liters annually. "We have a saying," says an official of the National Health Ministry in Bonn, "that...
...well as the nine-day Bachanalia on the island of Madeira in June. And if this seems a surfeit of baroque music, remember that June 16 is Bloomsday in Dublin, when admirers of James Joyce spend 18 hours retracing the steps of the hero of Ulysses from church to pub and onward...
Father: No. We need you to keep us in shoe leather. Off you go down to the factory. I'm for a pint at the pub...
...more solemn moments, the press likes to proclaim its devotion to the pub lic interest, but, as it goes about its daily routine, it is more prosaically concerned with what interests the public. In the support of some cause, the press may brave ly or stubbornly defy public opinion, but it never for long pursues topics the pub lic tunes out on. The Democratic campaign began much too early, the public quickly tired of the hassling that went on all spring between Walter Mondale, Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, and both conventions got only so-so television ratings. A public...