Word: hearses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giovanni grew up in a devout home "where in every room an emaciated man hung dying for our sake." He automatically accepted ordination as a priest (the novel never makes clear in what country or what faith) and never questioned his vocation until one day he hears the confession of...
Children of the Damned. Half a dozen bright, attractive but inexplicably fey youngsters take refuge in an abandoned London church, where strange things begin to happen. What's to be done? "Destroy them," say British authorities. Officials of the U.S., Indian, Red Chinese, Russian and Nigerian governments agree that...
Katzenbach's toughest problem is the U.S.'s ninth biggest school system-the 284 overseas schools serving 161,040 children of military men abroad. He hears bitter complaints from the schools' 7,000 civilian teachers, whose pay has risen only $100 a year since 1960. But he...
Simckes creates some fine comic scenes, the funnist of them in a scatalogical vein. Who can forget-Mrs. Charpolsky stuffing the toilet to block off the cold draught and hanging desperately over the bowl in her effort to remain untouched by the seat? Or Ma Shemansky's shame and indignation...
Two Martyrs. The hero of what Hochhuth calls "a Christian tragedy" is a saintly, selfless Jesuit, Father Riccardo Fontana-a fictional character modeled on the two Catholic priests martyred by the Nazis to whom Hochhuth dedicated his play. Fontana, who comes from an aristocratic Roman family with impeccable Vatican connections...