Word: drinker
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Seven-Year Campaign. Chiffy discovered the delights of his father's cellar, and at 17, he was a problem drinker. One problem led to another. He began to chase chorus girls so enthusiastically that friends changed his nickname from Chiffy to Chippy. There is evidence that he forged a check to finance one of his expeditions, and he slept through most of his classes at the U. of P. But apparently the boy could learn in his sleep long before the hypnopaedia boom, and he had a trick memory besides. With these weapons he stole a passing grade...
Biggest and best exhibit was called simply Allegory. It featured an umbrella, and a bar mirror to which had been affixed a cascade of crumpled tin. Bar mirrors are a bore, as filled with eyes sometimes as tapioca and they have a blandly unpleasant way of catching the drinker unawares. The tin in Allegory made a witty tasteful substitute for reflection. Esthetically, the umbrella, too, was a brilliant stroke, its sharply precise form and cloth texture in telling contrast to the gleaming glass and crumpled metal