Word: leper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...last of these complaints came last week, with passionate and justified indignation, from Marcello Orano, 56, once a successful author and one of Italy's popular heroes, now with no claim to fame save as Europe's best known and worst treated leper. One of a family prominent in education and government, Orano was a dashing cavalier who served as a colonial official in Africa, wrote novels (three of them made into prewar movies), had a bewildering succession of marital relationships, and once turned Moslem...
...move has been made to change Italian law in line with the ringing declaration of the 1956 congress. And that congress recommended dropping the word "leper" because of its incrustation of moral connotations, substituting "leprosy victim" or "leprosy patient." But Italian officialdom has changed in neither word nor deed: Marcello Orano, hero of 1941, is in 1959 nothing but a leper...
...methods of its enforcement that have convinced Murtagh, charged with the administration of the law, that drug addiction is less of a legal than a social and medical problem. Murtagh is outraged because bull-necked Federal Narcotics Commissioner Harry J. Anslinger dismisses the addict as "an immoral, vicious social leper." As the law works, Murtagh points out, multimillionaire underworld masterminds are virtually never caught (Genovese is a rare exception), and neither are the stratified middlemen, who peddle heroin in amounts down to ounces (at $500 an ounce for the pure "horse"). A few "pushers" (the smallest of small-fry peddlers...
...Bazin makes the dramatic history of how the roof came into being almost as interesting as the works housed beneath it. The original Louvre may go back to the 5th century. Etymologists speculate that the name may come from louverie (a meeting place of wolf hunters), or from a leper colony, or from a Saxon fortress (lower). Still to be seen in the present foundations are remains of the mighty fortress that King Philip Augustus erected on the site about 1190. But the Louvre of today owes its origins to France's great Renaissance prince of princes. Francis...
...jabbed a poison capsule into the ground with the point of a stout stick, he cocked a fiendish eyebrow and remarked: "I feel beastly, but one of us has to go." And then back to the house to work on a script about Father Damien's leper colony-he wrote most of the scenario for The Horse's Mouth too. After The Horse's Mouth he is scheduled to make a film version of The Scapegoat, by Daphne du Maurier. And after that? "Just keep going on, I guess...