Word: wino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...budding vaudevillian putting makeup on his collar even when unemployed so everyone will know he is in show biz. One is touched by the physical fact that his left wrist was permanently larger than the right from breaking repeated pratfalls. And a fine moment comes when a wino outside the theater holds out a dollar saying "Here, Bert, and thanks." As a young intellectual, John Lahr is eloquent, too, about his father's final sense that he did not understand the modern world around him. Unfortunately, such moments only emphasize the fact that the book never reaches the secret...
...AFRAID of meeting a Kool-Aid Wino...
What followed was a combination of pluck, luck and medical skill. When passers-by mistook Piper's pleading moans for the babblings of a wino and ignored him, he pulled the crowbar out himself, made a compress out of his soft worker's hat and summoned the strength to walk 100 ft. to a service station. An hour passed before he reached Fort Worth's St. Joseph's Hospital. There, by luck, a team of abdominal surgeons had just scrubbed up for an operation. Calling in a chest surgeon from nearby All Saints Hospital, they went...
...Mexico. Unfortunately, Mama can't adjust to Sagrado; the people are Mexicans, Indians and Anglos, the streets are full of donkey manure, and there's scarcely anyone to play bridge with. She begins to tap the stock of sherry in the cellar and becomes a befuddled wino. Along with looking after Mama and completing the process of growing up, Josh has some special problems of his own. Change Lopez, the meanest pachuquito in town, threatens to castrate him; an assignation becomes an embarrassing flop; and he can't decide whether he loves the Episcopal rector...
...that pupils and fellow teachers alike make jokes about it. One boy who stayed out playing hookey for a few days returned at length and, with a smile on his face, was able to justify his reason for returning in these words: "I got tired of seeing all the winos on the street. I though I'd come back to school to see and educated wino...