Word: swilling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...considered these days is square. But one new publication boasts of the fact; it even calls itself Square. "It hasn't been easy to be a square for the past several years," the first issue of the glossy quarterly complains. "To see citizens crowding around the swill of sex and cynicism, garnering applause. To hear others venerate corrupt intelligence and receive congratulations for it. But then one day, when someone snorted scornfully, 'Whadda you, some kinda square?' . . . 'Yes,' said we proudly...
...closing at 5, that did not leave much time for serious drinking, but Australians learned to make the most of it. Like alcoholic camels, they stowed away great amounts of beer in short amounts of time, capping it all with what is known as "the 6 o'clock swill"-ordering up to half a dozen beers a minute before the "beeroff" bell, gulping them down in the 15 minutes before the barmaids had to collect all glasses. Professional teetotalers kept the 6 o'clock curfew alive in Melbourne for 50 years, but last week it finally died. Acting...
...poetic justice that the nine old men [Dec. 17] who, in the name of democracy, opened the sluice gates on the filth pouring over our children are now themselves being inundated in the swill of pornography...
...dared think up discothèques is Jean-Claude Merle, a Paris entrepreneur who opened a club called La Discothèque 14 years ago and is still riding the boom. When he began, he detested musicians ("They play for perhaps twelve minutes, then go to the bar and swill down drinks for half an hour"), but now he detests phonograph records with the cold fury that comes from marrying a machine. This week Merle will close down his discothèque for a month or two, and when he reopens, it will be with the help of a live...
...When somebody suggested that the whole series was so much swill, Newhall replied with a question: "Is coffee more important than Berlin?" He answered himself: "It is. Fifteen years from now, people will have forgotten what happened in Berlin on such and such a day, but they sure as hell won't have forgotten about coffee...