Word: hain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Hain't it true, Teacher," asks the pupil, "that if God loves ever'body, then we'uns got to love ever'body too?" Christy Huddleston, the new 19-year-old mission schoolmarm, can handle that question easily, but God and the reader have their task cut out for them in this relentlessly uplifting honeypot. A first novel by the author of A Man Called Peter, this book tells of the Cutter Gap mountain mission in East Tennessee back in 1912: isolated mountaineers, moonshine, feuds, babies. Author Marshall concentrates laboriously on three priggish mission staffers: the dewy...
...Linton and Psychologist Jack D. Hain had originally feared that the withdrawn, introverted patients might become disorganized and panic under the drug; they were surprised to find that their rigid control-which may be a part of their emotional illness-proved enough to sustain them through an experience that they disliked intensely. Only the subjects who might normally be classed as sensation seekers reacted like thrilled acidheads...
Commodore Vanderbilt was a rowdy illiterate who wore a fur coat winter and summer and bellowed, "What do I care about the law? Hain't I got the power?" Big Jim Fisk was an ebullient bluffer who wore velvet vests and many rings, was shot to death by his mistress' lover. Dapper Jay Gould was a consumptive neurotic who was once led by a doctor from a board of directors' meeting in raving hysteria. These great robber barons all had the stuff of celebrity, and all of them have already been documented to death. But not Russell...