Word: frailing
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Some abandoned patients are merely frail and suffer from the complications of chronic diseases such as diabetes. But more are clearly demented. They show up in emergency rooms with acute problems like dehydration. Elderly people who live alone are sometimes so desperate for help that they in effect abandon themselves. Others are dumped not by relatives but by landlords and even household employees. In Greenville, N.C., a 65-year-old alcoholic woman materialized on the doorstep of the Pitt County Memorial Hospital after she was shoved out of a car by a fed-up and weary maid...
...large Jewish refugee population; he was one of some 7,000 Italian Jews to die in concentration camps. Carlo Schonheit, a cantor from Ferrara, and his son Franco were among the handful who survived Buchenwald, the horrors of which Alexander Stille describes with chilling understatement. Pietro Cardinal Boetto, the frail Archbishop of Genoa, unhesitatingly agreed to carry on the work of a Jewish relief organization after it was forced to disband. "They are innocents," he told his secretary. "We must help them at whatever cost to ourselves." And then there were the thousands of Italian Christians who out of uncommon...
...must go to his work; most of it cannot come to you -- not the murals and not many of the paintings either, most of which are now considered too frail to travel. Neither the St. Luke Altarpiece nor The Lamentation over the Dead Christ, that unsurpassably bitter and poignant image of the corpse on the stone slab, can leave the Brera in Milan, and the Louvre will never lend the Madonna della Vittoria to another museum...
Another problem is that Tsongas lacks the money to advertise as often as his rivals. Affluent Greek Americans who normally contribute heavily to their own have been holding back. "The Greek money is frozen," Tsongas concedes. With ! his frail treasury, his need to concentrate on New Hampshire and his lack of a national network, Tsongas has been unable to do much spadework outside New England. A victory in New Hampshire would solve his anonymity problem, but even that boost would leave him struggling desperately when the action moves to the South...
...edgily on, recounting their promotions and sackings, their new children and divorces. The trio of public school twits, who in the first film sang Waltzing Matilda in Latin, have mellowed into responsible burghers. Poor Neil, the brilliant child and (last time) the homeless neurotic, has settled in Shetland, Scotland, frail but still alive. That is almost the best to be said for the entire group, and they seem to know it; they speak apologetically of the not very much they have achieved. The mannerly desperation that seeps through is heartbreaking...