Word: leper
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...plenty of problems." Gordimer's Get a Life, published this month in Britain and the U.S., is a good example. It's the story of Paul Bannerman, an ecologist and antinuclear campaigner in his mid-thirties who, ironically, becomes temporarily radioactive after treatment for thyroid cancer. This "lit-up leper" is a menace to his young son and his wife, an advertising executive. So he moves into an empty wing of his parents' home. The situation is ripe for satire, but Gordimer has more serious plans. As Paul struggles to recover, his country and his family fall apart. High-stakes...
...profile of a potential hookup from another school, and, after seeing that the potential hookup only had 35 friends at his college, concluded that he was certainly not dateable. We are, to this day, thankful that she discovered this hideous fact before agreeing to go out with this social leper. Additionally, facebook.com can be thought of as a form of cultural bonding among members of our generation. Aside from the fact that it creates a much simpler method of connecting to people of our own age, it has also created an entirely new vocabulary and set of rules for etiquette...
...Russia and Turkey. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice also pointedly left Assad out of a meeting with European and other Middle Eastern leaders. (The only one willing to meet with him, the sources say, was Iran's new President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.) Assad's emerging status as a political leper comes amid an intensifying U.S. campaign against Syria--if not to oust the regime, then to muscle it into better behavior...
...bounties. They found one near a garbage dump. "As the shopkeeper fished around in his pocket for some plastic twine, a dirt-covered face scabrous with pellagra that looked about fifty years old shrunk back into the shadows of a hood made from grey sackcloth, like a medieval leper," he writes. The woman, who was in fact only 28, had crossed the border in a final effort to avoid starvation. As a prisoner, she would be sent back to North Korea, to face possible torture or even death in a labor camp. Becker bargained with the shopkeeper for her freedom...
...He is very agreeable," wrote a baroness in Belgium, introducing Graham Greene to a doctor running a leper colony in the Congo, but "very problematic." Indeed so. The love of ambiguity and restless sense of privacy that made Greene one of the defining writers of the past century rendered him a mystery in life, even to himself. Fifteen or so years before his death, perhaps as one of his celebrated pranks, the aging novelist appointed an intrepid Joseph Conrad scholar, Norman Sherry, to be his official biographer. In the 28 years since his appointment, Sherry followed Greene to more than...