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Such a binge of communal gambling was certain to provoke sober afterthoughts, and did. Said Monsignor Joseph A. Dunne of New York City, president of the National Council on Compulsive Gambling: "The state approved drinking but it doesn't promote it. Yet the state is promoting, advocating and pushing risk-taking behavior like gambling." Some critics complained that in using games of chance to raise revenue, states mainly exploit poorer people, whose tight financial straits tempt them to give in to dreams of hitting it big. Said Sociologist Eric Hirsch of Columbia University: "It's the American dream...
Fortunately, in Ginandes' work there are no noble peasants or rustic archetypes, but instead there are individuals making delicate adjustments to life in difficult places. These impressions are conveyed with an impeccable sense of composition and a relationship to subjects that are compassionate but sober. The individuals own sense of importance is movingly present...
Many Americans are frustrated crooners who sing in the shower and warble along with their Walkman tapes. But aside from belting out the national anthem with the crowd in the bleachers or cutting loose with the congregation on Sunday, most have been too shy or too sober to sing in public. Now thousands of closet Sinatras and Madonnas are publicly vocalizing, thanks to a nifty electronic device from Japan called the karaoke...
...tradition of Georgian hospitality." The new rules appear to be having some effect. With police now on the lookout for drunks, plumbers and carpenters seem less ready to insist on vodka as payment "under the table," which is where they often ended up by midday. "Now they're sober all day," says one Muscovite. "But after lunch, they get terribly cranky...
...than dressed as human savagery. Better to suffer the weather than to be the weather. Yet the mystery is the same. The people of Bangladesh will puzzle over a universe that periodically marks them for annihilation, but perhaps they will puzzle no less than the fellow from Liverpool who, sober, asks simply, "What got into me?" The abiding fear for everyone is that nothing got in that was not already there, that people are brimming with cyclones ready to spin into fury. That may be why it is possible to witness a week like the last with equal shocks...