Word: congo
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nurse's love affair with Africa. Slim, thirtyish Rachel Cade can take sex or leave it alone, but she is not really interested in it. She quits her first post because a married doctor keeps breathing amorously on her neck. At her next post, Dibela, in the Belgian Congo, the resident doctor dies the night she arrives, leaving her the only white within miles. In short order she climbs the sacred Mountains of the Moon and invites a couple of thahus (curses) from the local medicine men. So there she is, alone with surly Bantus not many generations removed...
...book begins: "After it happened I stayed in the Congo for several months. This seemed the safest and wisest thing to do under the circumstances. Then I went home to England. I took with me The Forest, my first book. It was taken by Collins. It was taken in America. The films bought...
...will be aware that this is a book in which the preferred words are short, the shortest being "I." The principal "I" of the story is a lowbrow, high-income writer who becomes maddened by visions of the girl he left behind him after a farming stint in the Congo. The poor girl, Helen, had been a dance-hall hostess in England. She had foolishly married one Henry Seaman, who at school looked like a "nasty cupid," bullied small boys and dropped white mice down the fronts of girls' dresses. By the time he marries Helen, Henry finds himself...
...enough, tall enough, to fail your examinations to show humility?" Gabrielle prayed for 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...
After taking her final vows in 1932, Gabrielle's wish was answered at last; she was sent to the Congo. The next seven years of selfless, 16-hour-a-day dedication to the health of the natives gives The Nun's Story the warm glow of Albert Schweitzer's "reverence for life," and probably brought Gabrielle close to peace of mind. But once, when she learned that three men were caught in quicksand and rushed out of the convent in a vain at tempt at rescue, she was rewarded with a dressing-down that probed deep into...