Word: lepers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...world misunderstanding of the war and give Ho Chi Minh a mistaken idea of world support. The tribunal, said McLendon, was "a kangaroo court conducted by Communists for Communists." A measure of the witnesses' integrity was that three of them accused the U.S. of purposely bombing a leper colony 37 times...
...storm center of controversy in Hawaii for the better part of a century. A Belgian-born Roman Catholic priest seeking converts, he was greeted with hostility by Hawaii's ruling Protestant-missionary families from the moment he arrived in Honolulu in 1864. He eventually volunteered to serve the leper colony on Molokai, became a beloved, if eccentric figure there; he wore a flowered native dress under his cape, tied up the brim of his battered clerical hat with string. At the age of 49, he died of leprosy, or Hansen's disease...
...owner has been sleeping with her handy man, a boy young enough to be her son. Another woman, admired for supporting her ancient, mentally enfeebled mother, actually beats the old lady. Eldritch also has its girlish flibbertigibbets (Susan Tyrrell and Katherine Bruce), its freak, a hunchbacked girl, and its leper, a whiskery derelict whom the local toughs mock with cries of "baaa!, baaa!" because he supposedly was once seen in an act of bestiality...
...Neurosis. These bogles, unlike most fancy-free elves, are not bores; malice and eloquence save them from that un-Irish condition. All of them turn on Trellis, afflict him with more boils (64) than Job's, and provoke him to a robust curse: "You hog of hell, you leper's death-puke!" A bleak, black coda to the book-within-a-book says enigmatically: "Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop." Was Trellis mad? It is hard to say. Was he a victim of hallucinations? Professor Unternehmer, the German neurologist, allows...
...those of his images. He has permitted himself to range from Bach to Mozart to Prokoviev to Odetta to the Missa Luba to Leadbelly. Running head-on against our various stock responses, he inevitably creates image-sound discords. For me such discords arose between the healing of a leper and a cotton-field blues moan, between the infant Jesus and Odetta's annoyingly mannered "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child...