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...newsstands, the bestselling cover of the year was about herpes, "Today's Scarlet Letter," and drew 480 letters. A majority accused the magazine of fanning the flames of Victorian fears. Said one victim of the disease: "All I saw was example after example reinforcing the so-called leper mentality toward herpes." From the minority, however, there was little sympathy for the afflicted. Many quoted the Bible, particularly Galatians 6: 7: "Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap...
...back. And forth. In his new book, Kurt Vonnegut once again traverses time and space, filling the pages. With short sentences. And placebo profundities: "To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life." And bromides: "the witching hour," "laughingstock," "dumb luck," "social leper...
Says Detroit Psychiatrist Elliot Luby: "As time goes on there is a 'leper' effect, and some patients describe convictions of their own ugliness, contamination or even dangerousness." Says Kim Robertson, 35, a furniture repairman who lives near San Francisco: "I thought anyone in their right mind would stay away from me." Robertson did not date for two years, and when he did he avoided intimacy. "You don't take the phone number. You don't want to go through the rejection...
...streets. These victims have scabs or open sores at the ends of their fingers, hands or feet. As the scabs fall off and the sores progress, there go a few more millimeters of flesh. The annual bill of $2 for treatment with dapsone is a substantial sum to the leper seeking alms to fill a prescription...
...butcher in a Jewish deli.") One high school jock who used to taunt Steven was won over when the young director cast him in an 8-mm movie called Battle Squad. At Phoenix's Arcadia High School, Spielberg found fellow spirits in the theater-arts program-"my leper colony. That's when I realized there were options besides being a jock or a wimp...