Word: invalidity
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Liberally sprinkled with Harvard talent, The New England Repertory Company has opened its fourth year in Boston with the production of Noel Coward's "The Vortex" and Moliere's "The Imaginary Invalid." While neither play represents its author at his best, both are rendered with the same determined effort and youthful enthusiasm that has won so many friends for the Repertory in the past three years...
...arrival of the royalties in Spain reminded Mariquita's mother of the girl's existence. She sued to get Mariquita and Mariquita's royalties back to Spain, although there the invalid girl would certainly have faced a concentration camp or worse. Basis of the suit was a Spanish law that parents have custody of their children until they are of age (23 in Spain...
...mail runs to about 500 letters a week. The letter he likes best came from a man who wrote: "My wife was a semi-invalid. She enjoyed your broadcasts. Yesterday she began to sink, but she heard the last out. She died happy...
...Motu Cordis, by William Harvey (1578-1657), discoverer of the circulation of the blood, have passed through Mr. Schuman's hands. About 17 first editions of this work are extant. The third copy, worth several thousand dollars, Mr. Schuman found in Los Angeles. Its owner, a confirmed invalid, was lying in bed drinking whiskey, flanked by a bar and a vault of rare book...
...This I Know" Inman faces his most difficult problem, that of coping with a holocaust. His attitude resembles very much that of another chronic invalid, fifty years ago, W. E. Henley. "I am the captain of my soul" is written all over these verses, coupled with a strong sense of excitement at being alive in such a time. The attitude has not aged well, but we can admire Mr. Inman's courage if not his solution...