Word: asylums
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...transmutations, even of identity, are continuous, and Malone has at least three names before he is done in. As the novel begins, he is lying in a hospital room which is sometimes an asylum cell. He may be 100 years old, though "I call myself an octogenarian," and he has the ageless "sickness unto death" of total despair. In his past life he has apparently been a street cleaner and may have been a murderer, but his only present concern is to be "neither hot nor cold any more, I shall be tepid, I shall die tepid...
...guidance, but concluded with her own answer: "This I cannot do, O Lord." She graduated fourth in a class of 80. The daughter of a doctor, Gabrielle had fervently hoped to be sent to the Belgian Congo as a missionary nurse. She was assigned instead to an insane asylum where 100 overworked nuns cared for 1,000 female patients. There she tended a countess who thought she was a dog and ate from a plate in the center of the floor, a onetime abbess whose chief quirk was to wear a brown-paper bag on her head night...
...rulers set official radio channels buzzing with demands for the return of plane and passengers, two of the travelers who had known nothing of the plot to seize the airplane decided to join those who had planned it. Another, breathing the air of freedom, was restrained from asking for asylum only by the thought of what might happen to his family if he failed to return...
...plotters, General Juan José Valle, died in front of the rifles. The other, General Raul Tanco, escaped in disguise to asylum in the Haitian embassy. Pro-government vigilantes, waving machine guns, kidnaped him from his refuge and turned him over to the army for execution. But Aramburu, respecting the right of asylum, ordered Tanco to be sent back to the embassy, from where he will probably take safe foreign exile...
...Guaranteed, in a specially issued press statement, that "those who have sought asylum" in the U.S. "shall have a free choice to leave," but made it equally clear that the Government will "satisfy itself . . . that the individual is leaving ... of his own free will. The right of asylum is one of the treasured traditions of free peoples...