Word: attics
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...another priest (Mieczyslaw Voit), a good, humble, godly man, has come to exorcise the demons in Mother Joan. Soon, in the convent attic where the sisters' white habits are hung to dry, she smiles at Father Joseph and whispers: "What if the devil left me and entered you?" Cut. A flight of birds appears, whirling and wheeling, uncertain of direction but moving with frenzy. Cut. Back in the attic, Father Joseph is crying...
...Attic, Hughes...
...time: April 1920. The place: a shabby eighth-floor attic in Moscow, where Yuli Martov, a leader of the defeated Social Democrats, is in hiding. As he is cooking supper on a tiny stove, he is interrupted by Sofia Markovna, a secret emissary from Lenin. Martov and Lenin were once the closest friends when both were Social Democrats, but since Lenin turned Bolshevik and later seized power, Martov is Lenin's bitterest enemy. Whispers the messenger: kindly Lenin, taking pity on his old buddy, has arranged to whisk Martov out of town before he is arrested. A seat...
FICTION 1. Franny and Zooey, Salinger (1, last week) 2. The Agony and the Ecstasy, Stone (5) 3. The Bull from the Sea, Renault (2) 4. The Fox in the Attic Huges (3) 5. Devil Water Seton (4) 6. A Prologue to Love, Caldwell (7) 7. Ship of Fools, Porter (6) 8. To Kill a Mockingbird, Lee 9. Captain Newman, M.D., Rosten (9) 10. Chairman of the Bored, Streeter...
...Attic, Hughes...