Word: covenanters
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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THE CRY AND THE COVENANT (469 pp.)-Morton Thompson-Doubleday ($3.50).
Author Morton Thompson (Joe, the Wounded Tennis Player) dignifies his novelized life of Semmelweis by steering clear of the soupy fantasies that make a lot of biographical fiction worthless. The Cry and the Covenant was read for errors by a leading Manhattan gynecologist, who found none. Even the inevitably idyllic...
The Cry and the Covenant is a steaming caldron of 19th Century medical horror that sometimes bubbles over in such phrases as "The love in him wrung its hands in defeat." But more often its galloping, impassioned style exactly conveys the sight and smell of wards full of dying women...
In Israel, the Shofar's sound echoed for the first time in more than 2,000 years through a free land in which the People of the Covenant could walk in safety and peace. The Labor government of non-Orthodox Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion made provision for an...
For two years-all the way from Lake Success to Geneva and back again-the United Nations had been arguing about an international covenant for freedom of the press. Last week, when the General Assembly finally approved the world's first treaty on the subject, it hardly seemed worth...