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...other side of the scale, Authors MacAndrew and Edgerton cite the Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
...wrong. Try again. A different sequence of numbers flashes on. Another miss. Better pull yourself together and concentrate. But you fail for the third time and you know that now the car won't start at all for another half-hour; it has sensed that you are not sober enough to drive safely...
...them, recall them, and punch them into the keyboard in a coordinated response within a few seconds. If he can perform these functions he is fit for the road. If he cannot−in three tries−the tester shuts off for a half-hour, giving him time to sober up before another attempt...
...Emil Mazey, 56, the U.A.W.'s No. 2 man as secretary-treasurer since 1947 and now its acting president. Articulate and sober-minded, Mazey controls the purse strings and is popular among local presidents, but he has had little bargaining experience...
...Sober periodicals such as the intellectual weekly Die Zeit questioned the ad's statistics, and the business journal Handelsblatt attacked it as "a model of tastelessness." Popular reaction was less restrained. Der Spiegel was deluged by bitter letters of complaint...