Word: barman
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...disturbing if taken seriously. Examples: the U.S. hates abstract thought; bullfighting is popular in U.S. literature because Americans are obsessed with death; most old-line tycoons drank half a quart of whisky every day. And in Newport, "in every house where I was invited [there was] a white-coated barman whom everybody called 'Fido...
...Glenorchy and heir to the 9th Earl of Breadalbane and Holland, might easily have won fame & fortune as the hero of a P. G. Wodehouse novel. He is tall, languid, perennially short of cash and preoccupied with strange solutions for his problem. Lord Glenorchy has tried his luck as barman, bagpiper and laborer to supplement the $28-a-month pension he draws as a wounded veteran of the famed Black Watch Regiment. No luck...
When Salati heard that the bar run by the Communist welfare organization had closed, he ordered it reopened. Not a customer appeared until 5, when Salati himself showed up for a coffee. "I am sorry, comrade," said the barman, "but there's no pressure in the coffee machine." Salati settled for a warm orange squash. Later the local newspaper, which had also closed down for the six hours, crowed: "The first strike of its kind in Italy. A complete success...
...actor and a barman-they're brothers!" Maugin says. "Both of them live on other people's vices . . ." That is Maugin's record. At 14, he ran away from his home in the provinces with five sous in his pocket. The money was blackmail, squeezed out of a schoolboy pal whom he had caught raping his sister. Women paid his way more directly in Paris. An adoring prostitute kept him in meals and clothes; a mousy ingenue housed him (he left her pregnant); a nymphomaniac stage star married him and later took an overdose of morphine after...
...Amerikanos" by Aristides Stavrolakes, unlike the other stories in the issue (and unlike Stavrolakes' review of Associate Professor Albert J. Guerard's new novel), does not claim to be Art. It tells simply and even with some humor of a Greek barman who has a vision of returning to his native land with a Cadillac; that is all. It is brief and well-written, an excellent vignette, and its major virtue is its unpretentiousness...