Word: cancerous
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Solzhenitsyn's novels reflect the intense brooding sadness of the Russian people, expressed through events similar to those of his own life. His eight-year stay in Stalinist labor camps, as well as his recovery from cancer, clearly contributed to the characterizations and intense emotional power of Cancer Ward, The First Circle, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, and The Gulag Archipelago...
...only now erecting its own 44-bed building as a backup for its home care. It will continue to rely largely on home visits by staff nurses and dedicated volunteers. That home technique has been widely and successfully emulated. Says Dr. Walter Norley, 62, who is dying of bone cancer and is being cared for at home by Riverside Hospice in Boonton, N.J.: "I don't know whether it's because I'm a physician or not, but I have no desire to spend more time in a hospital than I must...
Whatever the setting, an immediate priority of hospices is the relief of chronic pain and fear, which can be particularly severe when patients are dying of cancer. Unlike traditional hospitals, where terminal patients are often so heavily doped that they are virtually in a stupor, hospices usually administer methadone or a special mixture that may include morphine, cocaine, alcohol and syrup. Even before the pain begins to be extreme, the mix is given in relatively small quantities at various intervals around the clock. This helps allay the fear of pain and reduces the amount of drugging necessary to control...
DIED. Robert Bradshaw, 61, highhanded Prime Minister of St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla, a trio of West Indian islands knit together as a British associated state; of cancer; in Basseterre, St. Kitts. In a troubled climate of high unemployment with a flimsy sugar-cane economy, Bradshaw clung to power chiefly because of his adaptability. A onetime bicycle mechanic and cane cutter, he rose as a labor organizer, attained political power and preached nationalism while flaunting cutaways and a yellow Rolls-Royce. When Britain's colonial hold eased in 1967, Bradshaw was voted into the first of three terms as Prime...
Solzehnitsyn won international acclaim following the publication of his first book, "One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich," in 1962. His subsequent novels include "Cancer Ward," "The First Circle" and the recently completed Gulag Archipelago trilogy...