There is only one really safe, mild, harmless beverage and you can drink as much of that as you like without running the slightest... risk, and what you say when you want it is, "Garçon! Un Pernod!"LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Tea, though ridiculed by those who are naturally coarse in their nervous sensibilities ... will always be the favourite beverage o...f the intellectual.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The most condensed format of the conversionist motif is the TV commercial, which has become essential to both network and religiou...s broadcasting. Embedded in its structure are sentiments from our religious and political heritage: salvation and choice. Newness of life can now be associated with a change of heart about politics, the purchase of a new car, or the selection of a beverage. A Pepsi commercial, for example, designed to fit the charismatic personality and gifts of singer Michael Jackson, became an invitation to make a decision and join in. Images and sounds of the soft-drink ad drew viewers into a growing throng of happy, dancing people following the steps of a dynamic cultural hero. Even couch potatoes might have been roused, vicariously at least, to skip lightly behind the agile Jackson as he led his ecstatic followers to the right choice. The conversionist call in this instance is to come on up to the good life through Pepsi. Nonetheless it plays upon the persuasive motifs of turning around and becoming a part of something larger.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
A man's social and spiritual discipline must answer to his corporeal. He must lean on a friend who has a hard breast, as he would ...lie on a hard bed. He must drink cold water for his only beverage. So he must not hear sweetened and colored words, but pure and refreshing truths. He must daily bathe in truth cold as spring water, not warmed by the sympathy of friends.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nearer yet to town, you come to ... ground famous for the pranks of a demon not distinctly named in old mythology, who has acted a... prominent and astounding part in our New England life, and deserves, as much as any mythological character, to have his biography written one day; who comes first in the guise of a friend or hired man, and then robs and murders the whole family,--ââ¬âew-England Rum. But history must not yet tell the tragedies enacted here; let time intervene in some measure to assuage and lend an azure tint to them. Here the most indistinct and dubious tradition says that once a tavern stood; the well the same, which tempered the traveller's beverage and refreshed his steed. Here then men saluted one another, and heard and told the news, and went their ways again.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
After a few months' acquaintance with European "coffee," one's mind weakens, and his faith with it, and he begins to wonder if the... rich beverage of home, with its clotted layer of yellow cream on top of it, is not a mere dream after all, and a thing which never existed.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Poverty is relative, and the lack of food and of the necessities of life is not necessarily a hardship. Spiritual and social ostra...cism, the invasion of your privacy, are what constitute the pain of poverty.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »