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...Dutiful Daughter, Keneally creates a presumably commonplace family-the Glovers-plunks them down on an isolated outback farm, and pronounces the scene his ninth circle. The story begins with deceptive ordinariness. At holidays, Damian Glover returns home from college to his older sister Barbara and the mysteriously ailing parents to whom she is devoting her life. Keneally's passions, however, are too intense for mere realism. Observing that "absolutely millions of people" are mad with "family pride," he concludes that "the only way for them to get humility is through learning they're-you know-beasts." Accordingly, like...
...Patron saints of physicians & surgeons are SS. Cosmas & Damian; of nurses, St. A.catha; of throat ailments, St. Blaise...
...until last week did an influential body of U. S. Catholic doctors dare to discuss the subject boldly and receptively. The group was Chicago's Cosmas & Damian Associates, guild of physicians and surgeons. Five hundred of them had scholarly Father John A. O'Brien of the University of Illinois on hand to give them ecclesiastical approbation and Dr. Arthur George Miller, a leading U. S. investi- gator of the fertility-sterility rhythm, to give them practical instruction...
...Damian, Rumania, villagers haunted by the "ghost" of Mrs. Stephen Safta, suicide, exhumed her body, cut out her heart, burned it, scattered the ashes...
Last week Mircea Damian, author, began serving his four-month sentence...