Word: lepere
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...movie. Burt asks this wimpy Bostonian character if he ever hunts, and the guy answers, "No, not since Bambi." There. I've saved you five bucks. I imagine I could bash the flick for a few more paragraphs, but it's no fun; it's like mocking a leper. It's got enough problems already...
...feel as if I am in a leper colony," said Margaret Moodie, a self-described "heavy smoker...
...employees being allowed to work as long as they can." At the San Francisco headquarters of Levi Strauss, the blue jeans manufacturer, an AIDS victim who was allowed to stay on the job as a supervisor declares, "I do not get the feeling here that I'm a leper...
...married years, Harry and Erica John quietly built a life around their nine children, their devotion to the Roman Catholic Church and their charitable works. Through the De Rance Foundation, which Harry started in 1946 with an inherited 46% interest in the Miller Brewing Co., they funded everything from leper colonies in Africa to antipoverty programs in hometown Milwaukee. Residing in the unpretentious suburb of Wauwatosa, the Johns cherished obscurity as a virtue commended by the 17th century Trappist monk Armand Jean De Rance, for whom Harry named the foundation. Though De Rance became the world's largest Catholic charity...
...newspaper reporters do their homework when they report on Dr. Vernon Mark's suggestions about involking 18th century laws to track down possible carriers of the AIDS virus and confining people who are found to have the virus to the former leper colonies on Penikese Island off Cape Cod? The Boston Globe identified him only as a Harvard professor and so did The Crimson. More relevant than his Harvard affiliation, perhaps, is the fact that in the early 1970's Dr. Mark proposed mandatory psychosurgery (lobotomy) for Blacks who participated in ghetto riots or who were incarcerated for violent crimes...