Word: leper
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...generations, the University of Mexico had been a typical European-style collection of colleges scattered among downtown colonial monuments: the law school occupied a former convent, the medical faculty the Spanish Inquisition's old headquarters, the art school a onetime leper hospital. In 1948, the university's most powerful alumnus, President Miguel Alemán (Law, '28), decided that the 28,000 students needed a brand-new home-a U.S.-style campus complete with dormitories and a football stadium. A group of faculty and student architects submitted the winning design. Finally, in 1950, Alemán named...
...didn't even feel it. Another day he smelled burning flesh, saw his own toes pressed against a flatiron, yet felt no pain. When the doctors cleared up the mystery, Govind had to swap his tradesman's heaven-on-earth for what he was sure would be leper's hell...
...Mask of a Lion, Author A. T. W. Simeons shows that the life of a leper is not always as hellish as Govind had supposed. Simeons is a London-born, Heidelberg-trained doctor who spent about 20 years in India. Now a consultant at Rome's International Hospital, he has written a novel that makes amateurish fiction but has the fascination of its grisly material. If the book is read simply as a knowing, colorful report on the lepers' way of life, its inadequacies as a novel can be comfortably ignored...
...Bishop Sheen this season on a coast-to-coast Du Mont TV network. Telecaster Sheen's fee for the season: nearly $1,000,000, to be paid to Mission Humanity, Inc. (Bishop Sheen is the national director), a voluntary agency of the United Nations which distributes funds to leper hospitals, orphanages and homes for the aged without regard to race, creed or color...
...picture opens with young Francis and his twelve disciples returning to Umbria in 1209 after receiving the Pope's blessing for their work. A succession of loosely linked episodes depicts Francis delivering his famous sermon to the birds; the tormented Francis embracing a leper in a moving, wordless scene punctuated only by the clank of the leper's warning clapper and Francis' sobs as he throws himself on the ground; zealous Friar Juniper cutting off a little pig's foot to make soup for a sick brother; Friar Juniper's selflessness triumphing over the bloody...