Word: cholerae
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More and more estranged from her husband, the young woman is more and more drawn to his assistant. The logical conclusion, however, is forestalled by a plague of cholera, during which the husband comes to understand himself and the wife to forgive him. In the end, the house and what it stands for-the embodied tyranny of the husband's father-are destroyed by a herd of elephants, whose way to water it has long debarred...
...begins the latest problem novel by France's Jean Giono. For dust-jacket purposes, it may be described as the stirring adventures of a young Italian officer making his way home through the south of France during the terrible 1838 epi demic of Asiatic cholera. But at bottom, it is not a costume novel at all; it is a new appraisal of an ancient subject -human mortality. Death, and the behavior of people in the face of death, make its subject matter, but its main question is: How should man behave, ideally, when confronted by his oldest, most ruthless...
...spreading and believing bloodcurdling ru mors. The happy-go-lucky are whoring and boozing in a last, sordid spree; the eccentrics are staging a comic opera and disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does not exist. Most are being destroyed by their own suspicions, e.g., when Angelo thinks up a plan to escape quarantine, half of them reject it because it is simple and the rest because it is practical. No plan, they argue, can be good if it is "available...
Next day Rhee told 1,000 Chinese civil servants that Asians must fight Communism together, "as you would fight cholera, smallpox or any other contagious disease...
...sooner was he well than cholera struck. It killed so many people in Sicily that the price of anchovies dropped disastrously. Grandfather Malavoglia had to sell the boat...