Word: homelies
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...central figure is 1st Lieut. Marius Catto. The 24-year-old lieutenant is an orphan who feels that the Union Army is his first real home, a bumbling but compassionate leader, an idealistic virgin consumed by lust. Catto manages to get himself shot in the shoulder by Martin mainly out of sheer carelessness. He feels no animosity toward the boy, and while recuperating from his wound, Catto fights the court-martial and the subsequent execution with an increasingly anguished awareness of the complexities of life. "What had been a duel, lost honorably and without resentment, became a charade, himself...
...aside to Cervantes, the ringmaster unveils the secret of his own technical trickery, the warping of time, the myth turned real and reality fantasized. "Your stories also exemplified the dual nature of all good narrative art: they sallied forth against adolescent thoughtmodes and exhausted art forms, and returned home with new complexities." Although Coover is often tediously complex, there is a certain madness in his method that just as often delights...
...have any previous history of mental illness and did I get along with my parents and all. I said that I'd been through the usual number of hassles but that I was basically pretty stable. They gave me the OK anyway, and I checked into the nursing home Saturday morning...
...about seven hours later, there was a nurse sort of wandering around the room, and I said, "When am I going in?" "You've already been in," she said. I thought she was joking-I didn't remember anything. They let me stay that night and we flew home the next morning, Sunday...
Most Boston hospitals demand that the consenting doctors be members of the hospital staff. Also, most require a previous history of mental illness. Some ask for parental permission, although most have adopted the emancipated minor' policy. If a girl has been living away from home, is self-supporting, and asks that her parents not be notified, she is considered an emancipated minor, and parental permission is waived...