Word: lepere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...wish they wouldn't have accepted her at all," said one incensed parent of his commuter-daughter. "I think it's a slap in the face." A long-time Harvard administrator argued that foreing a specific group to live at home was comparable to exiling them to a leper colony--not the kind of move likely to improve community relations...
...public order and white supremacy. Since 1962 she has enjoyed real freedom for a total of only eleven months, and she is now beginning another five-year term as a banned person. Thus she, along with 114 other black and white opponents of apartheid, remains an outcast, a legal leper with few rights and many restrictions...
Graham Greene's architect Querry had to trek to an African leprosarium to find a metaphor adequate to express his mood; nothing less would be sufficiently wasted, blighted, defunct. Querry was, Greene meant, A Burnt-Out Case, like the leper Deo Gratias, his soul far gone. He was a masterpiece of acedia, a skull full of ashes, a rhapsodist of his own desolation...
Mahoney is unsure precisely what he'll be doing for Mother Teresa, but suggests several possibilities--work in a home for the dying, in a leper colony, or in an orphanage. He certainly won't be living in the lap of luxury: for his first two months. he'll reside "in a common room of sorts with a group of brothers" who will also work with Mother Teresa. After that, Teresa's order will no longer be able to fund his room and board--and Mahoney is prepared to make...
...Philippine visit, apparently, is a somewhat manicured tour. A design for an outdoor altar evoking fishermen's nets was interdicted by First Lady Imelda as too "poor." He had intended to visit a prison; the stop was deleted from his itinerary. He wanted to see a leper colony; instead, a small group of lepers will greet him in a Manila suburb. At the mountain resort of Baguio, John Paul will be entertained by a group of pagan tribespeople, sporting G strings and spears. The Catholic tribespeople, who usually wear Western clothing and eschew spears, will be relegated...