Word: hearted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first novel untitled. Its story of a deaf-mute who becomes a confessor for an odd assortment of searching, lost human beings has in my opinion been generally overrated. Her book is good, but it hardly lives up to the promise of its haunting, haiku-like title -- The Heart is a Lonely Hunter...
...Heart is a Lonely Hunter is more like a poem surrounded by a pageant. The purists will undoubtedly charge it with infidelity to the book. It's a shame more liberties weren't taken...
Died. Daniel Johnson, 53, Premier of Quebec since 1966; of a heart attack. Half Irish by birth and French Canadian by choice, Johnson studied for the priesthood but turned to politics, becoming a protege of the late autocratic Premier Maurice Duplessis. Johnson maneuvered a political tightrope on the issue of separatism for French-speaking Quebec by calling for national unity to calm down extremists, yet urging more autonomy for the province. He had planned to go to France later this month, and Charles de Gaulle intended to receive him as a full-fledged head of state...
Died. Padre Pio, 81, the Capuchin friar whose body was said to bear the stigmata, or the wounds inflicted on Christ during his passion; of a heart attack; in San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy. Blood first appeared on his hands, feet and side 50 years ago and, though the Vatican never officially considered his wounds of divine origin, Pio (born Francesco Forgione) attracted millions of pilgrims who came to his monastery in San Giovanni in hopes of seeing...
...been too busy to write his acceptance speech. Privately, he feared that becoming an "immortal" was an unnecessary challenge to his own mortality. Seventy-two hours after the ceremony, his seven-year-old niece went into his study to offer him some popcorn and found him dead of a heart attack...