Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...riot come up with one statement in defense of life under any conditions as Hemingway did against it: "Life on my terms or I don't want it." It is ridiculous to claim, as does Dr. Yolles, that no physical torture is sufficient reason to prefer death. The cancer patient who wants euthanasia is committing no crime against the miracle of life. There are times when proper homage is paid to life by renouncing it rather than by clinging...
Fear & Joy. Lemercier got permission from Rome to try again, and slowly built St. Mary's near the ruins of the old monastery. The intense work, combined with worries about his health-he eventually lost his left eye because of cancer-put him under great stress. One night in October 1960, according to his Dialogues, he had a vision of lightning flashes. Feelings of fear and joy swept over him; tearfully he cried out, "My God, why don't you speak to me?" Suspecting that he was going insane, he turned for help to Mexican Psychoanalyst Gustao Quevedo...
...today writers can no longer count on Boston censorship -- in the last four major obscenity trials in the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, Tropic of Cancer, Fanny Hill: The Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, Candy, and Naked Lunch have been judged fit for public consumption...
...trials of Tropic of Cancer and Naked Lunch there were eminent writers who were willing to spend their time defending the freedom of expression, but with less famous books, it is unlikely that the book's defenders would be able to entice writer-witnesses into the courtroom...
...Money problems? Poverty as such does not drive people to suicide; it is the wealthy whose fortunes collapse, like Swedish Match King Ivar Kreuger, rather than those with nothing to lose, who are more inclined to it. Poor health? Physical suffering rarely triggers self-destruction; the incidence among cancer patients is remarkably low. Love? Few really kill themselves for unrequited passion...