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The Examined Life

The power of positive drinking?

BAR CODE Not every piece of advice in 'The Modern Drunkard' was passed down from an older generation of drinkers. Using sign language to communicate in a noisy bar is the author's own innovation.
BAR CODE Not every piece of advice in "The Modern Drunkard" was passed down from an older generation of drinkers. Using sign language to communicate in a noisy bar is the author's own innovation.
By Joshua Glenn
November 13, 2005

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''DRINKING IS being demonized in America right now,'' lamented Frank Kelly Rich, editor of the Denver-based magazine Modern Drunkard, in a recent phone interview. ''Influential outfits like Mothers Against Drunk Driving-whose original goal was a worthy one, but which is, I think, developing into a prohibitionist organization-seem to believe that America would be a happy, safe, nonviolent place if we'd ... (Full article: 343 words)

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