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...have used the drug climbed from 15 million to 20 million and is rising still: every day some 5,000 neophytes sniff a line of coke for the first time. They cannot be written off as crazy kids: Government studies find that those in their late 20s and 30s constitute the fastest-growing proportion of users and, as of 1982, a majority of people who had tried cocaine were over 26. Nor does it seem that cocaine use has peaked. Says Thomas B. Kirkpatrick, executive director of the Illinois dangerous drugs commission: "My guess is that we're only halfway...
...quarter of the student body is non-denominational; the rest represent 46 different denominations, with the largest group--13 percent--Catholic. More than half are women, many of them attracted by the school's unique Women's Studies in Religion Program. The median entering age is somewhere in the 30s...
...Rhodes scholars, and the percentage of alumni listed in Who's Who is among the highest for American colleges. Readers, writers and publishers who have never heard of the University of the South know of the Sewanee Review, the oldest literary quarterly in the country. In the '30s and '40s it published the works of such writers as Allen Tate, Robert Penn Warren, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty, bolstering the Southern literary renaissance...
...around. Before long, writers of every stripe, from Dorothy Parker to Clifford Odets, had discovered this fantastic new way to waste their gifts and souls. That, at least, was the story many of them told throughout the '30s and '40s. The figure of the gin-soaked Hollywood sell-out became such a stale literary cliche that it found its way into the movies, where the studios and their hired scribblers could enjoy a hollow laugh at each other's expense...
With a green Viking hat on his head, a shamrock on his cheek, and a banner in his hand. Dave Borgman, a hefty man in his mid-30s, was the consummate MSU fan. The Harvard hat impaled on the horn of his headpiece was the finishing touch...