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From:Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature (Vol. 72, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedLIKE A GOOD drunken tale, this essay is framed between two unverifiable and contradictory anecdotes, both of which concern Shakespeare's drinking. The first is from an interview John Aubrey conducted around 1680 with the...
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From:Prairie Schooner (Vol. 95, Issue 1)Do you consume alcohol? If so, how many days a week do you drink? On days when you drink, how many drinks do you have? For as long as I can remember, my mom has drunk a bottle of red wine a day. This is not an exact...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 125, Issue 4)THE BEER was thin and tepid. I'm not sure what brand I was drinking, but it really didn't matter much. In 1980, Coors was the outer edge of exotic, and beer ran from pale to paler. Bruce had drifted over to the other...
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From:Commentary (Vol. 137, Issue 4)THE 50 STATES are sometimes called "laboratories of democracy." Although the expression is intended to highlight in flattering terms how innovative they can be, it also suggests that the states' political experiments...
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From:New England Review (Vol. 40, Issue 4) Peer-ReviewedNONE OF OUR PUBLIC MEN HAVE A STORY so STRANGE AS THIS. IT is stranger than Lincoln's. It is very much the strangest of them all. Is it accident that at the beginning of a certain four years this middle-aged man should...
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From:Ancient Narrative (Vol. 8) Peer-ReviewedThis paper aims to explore two contemporary Latin ego-narratives, Gellius' Attic Nights and Apuleius' Metamorphoses, in a synchronic cultural perspective. Through contextualisation we can gain a clearer perspective on...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 317, Issue 9564-65)One of the unwritten rules in our house is that Christmas should never be mentioned until a few days before the big day. Mrs Spencer gets into a state in the run-up to the festive season, not least because, as a teacher...
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From:New Statesman (Vol. 138, Issue 4947)Here's a solution to Alan Johnson's problem with the culture of binge drinking: all the Health Secretary has to do is round up the nation's serial topers and bus them to Knightsbridge, to the late Queen Mother's...
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From:Boulevard (Issue 104-105)The First Phone Call: September 8, 2018 Eight years after I was raped in a hostel abroad, I worked up the courage to ask my mom, "What happened in Budapest?" I heard her breathe on the other end. I had called my...
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From:Texas Studies in Literature and Language (Vol. 42, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedPoetry celebrating intoxication has a long history. Anacreaon of Teos, in the 5th century BC, wrote many such poems, and such work either praises the feeling of freedom being drunk creates or uses alcohol as a metaphor...
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From:The Literary Review (Vol. 63, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedFor many years, I did not drink beer and then, suddenly, I did. Before that, before I drank beer, I drank wine. For many years when I was asked at a party, at a gathering, at an event, if I wanted something to drink, I...
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From:Spectator (Vol. 312, Issue 9472)When the relationship ended a week before the Christmas before last, she'd already bought my Christmas presents. Instead of posting or burning them, she stored them under the desk in her office, resting her exquisite...
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From:Victorian Poetry (Vol. 46, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn the publication of J. B. Nicolas' French translations of Omar Khayyam --collected in book form as Les quatrains de Kheyam in 1867, having initially appeared in the Revue de l'Orient, de l'Algerie et des Colonies four...
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From:Studies in Short Fiction (Vol. 33, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedJohn Updike treats drinking alcohol as a means to examine social relationships in his short story sequence 'Too Far to Go.' The Maples' marriage at first treats alcohol as a social prop that helps define gender roles,...
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From:The Wilson Quarterly (Vol. 30, Issue 2)THE SOURCE: "Shape of Glass and Amount of Alcohol Poured: Comparative Study of Effect of Practice and Concentration" by Brian Wansink and Koert van Ittersum, in BMJ, Dec. 2005. FROM THE FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE comes...
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From:Alabama Heritage (Issue 91)The year is 1831. The setting: the antebellum South. An early morning sun silhouettes the fig ures of two men, obviously gentlemen, standing back to back in an open field. A voice from the shadows calls, "One, two,...
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From:Witness (Vol. 27, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedMY FRIEND JAMES AND I TOOK THE SUBWAY to a region on the outskirts of St. Petersburg known as Kupchino. We were invited to a dinner party hosted by a couple whose two adult children had died in separate incidents a few...
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From:Studies in Romanticism (Vol. 53, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedTHE MOTIF OF THE DRINKING CUP, RICH IN HISTORICAL AND LITERARY ASSOCIATIONS, has variously evoked Dionysian inspiration, rituals of libation, Christ's sacrifice, and, by extension, either pleasure or healing. Male...
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From:Mark Twain Journal (Vol. 47, Issue 1-2)DEAR EAGLE: In your issue of the 24th inst, you called upon me, as upon a sort of Fountain-Head of Facts (an intimation which touched the very marrow of my ambition, and sent a thrill of ecstasy throughout my being),...