Word: draught
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Creativity and Catapults. Such human engineering, of course, would stunt the passionate creativity that slow risers now use to bedevil themselves out of bed. One Los Angeles ad man takes a deep draught of vodka, which, he says, tricks him into thinking it's still last night and he's awake and having a good time. The wife of one comedian once baked him out of bed by turning up the dial on his electric blanket. Humorist Robert Benchley's secretary used to wake him up with such snappy lines as "The men have come to flood...
...Porter's Quartet No. 3 and Vin cent Persichetti's Quartet No. 2 crackled with clean precision. In Dvorák's Quar tet in F Major, Op. 96, their tempos, if sometimes inflexible, were brisk and lively, their tone as rich and heady as a draught of May wine. Neither muscular nor mushy, their approach was marked by a warmth and intuitive sensitivity that projected the sweep of the music in bold relief...
CHRYSLER PRESENTS A BOB HOPE COMEDY SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). A daring mixture of unlike comic elixirs-Lee Marvin, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters-which may blend into a palatable draught...
Back at the brewery, other changes are under way. Some beermen are testing small aluminum kegs that provide draught beer for home refrigerators and could revive the draught-beer market, which has slumped from 75% to 18% of total consumption. After much delay, Carling last month started a continuous brewing plant at Fort Worth that makes beer by assembly-line process instead of in single vats; other beer executives are watching to see if the process accounts for sizable labor saving. Coors Co. of Colorado is developing a vertical process in which it grows its own grain, makes...
...often tempted to quit. But he had second thoughts, as he noted candidly. "Though I don't think I am pathologically vain, there is a thrill in being a celebrity and in the kudos that go with that state. Playing the great man-it is a sweet draught and no mistake...