Word: frailness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...skills and sufferings, Narayan failed in his first purpose. Recently he got to thinking that if he performed a really long penance, God might be pleased enough to bring "peace to the world." A fortnight ago, frail, black-bearded, 56-year-old Narayan let himself down to the bottom of a deep, six-foot-square pit outside of New Delhi. He spread the skin of a deer on the pit's wooden floor, placed his sandals carefully by his side, sat down and assumed the cross-legged "lotus position." Then he passed out a signed statement: "If anything wrong...
...Jerusalem flat, Rabbi Klemes let himself down into a comfortable chair and tuned in the radio. "Tonight you will hear a recording of this morning's broadcast from Moscow," said the announcer. Frail old (74) Jacob Klemes, who had slipped out of Russia in 1934 after nine nervous years as Rabbi of Moscow, leaned forward, the better to hear his mother tongue. Half an hour later his housekeeper found him dead...
...medical approach . . . The impact of social and economic factors [must] be considered as much as the mechanisms by which tubercle bacilli cause damage to the human body. On the other hand, the disease modifies in a peculiar manner the emotional and intellectual climate of the societies that it attacks." Frail & Pale. Tuberculosis was so great a killer in the iyth century, that John Bunyan wrote of Mr. Badman: "The captain of all these men of death that came against him to take him away was the Consumption, for it was that that brought him down to the grave...
...fortune-hunting, Ase is left not only with all the chores but also with Nellie, one of Ben's girls. Nellie tries to be a good wife to him, but though she heats his bed she rarely warms his heart. They have five children, but only one, his frail daughter Dolly, ever tugs very hard at Ase's heartstrings. One winter day Ase's mother, half-crazed by Ben's continued absence, takes Dolly walking in a blizzard and loses her. Ase buries his child in a tiny, hand-hewn coffin...
Emotional Wave. In the afternoon the body, seated in a chair on a four-wheel cart, was drawn through the streets by Telugu schoolboys waving lengths of black silk, beating their chests and crying, "Madras city is ours." At the crematorium, the frail body was washed in rose water and burned on a pile of sandalwood while Hindu priests recited the funeral service and Telugu politicians thundered to the mourning mob that they would never give up Madras city...