Word: lice
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Like the play, the picture does not rigorously develop a plot. It establishes a milieu, a geography of moral failure, an ultimate, absolute flophouse. And in this flophouse it engenders characters as straw breeds lice: a smalltime crook, a sentimental whore, a police spy who regularly gets beaten by his wife, an alcoholic actor, a slugnutty wrestler, a landlord and landlady like two scorpions in a bottle, and watching them all a funny little old man who laughs and laughs and shakes his head and says, "Oh, the way people live...
...strange syllables of ten forgotten languages, letting my spirits fail, my youth pass," he youthfully wrote. Then a roommate, Australian Bacteriologist Hugh Ward, introduced John Enders to Hans Zinsser, Harvard University's professor of bacteriology and immunology, and one of the great fertilizing minds of his era (Rats, Lice and History for the layman. Infection and Resistance for the profession). Enders was then 30. "A man of superlative energy," Enders wrote of Zinsser after their first meeting at a hard-cider party: "A golden heart and sufficient intelligence...
starvation, lice, cholera and typhus...
...many variants- on the spelling of Shakespeare's name; Buffalo Bill's biographer rustles up 14: Coady, Cody, McCoady, etc., and Buffalo Bill probably could not have cared less. He might have resented the fact that Author Russell discovered that his celebrated long hair was filled with lice when he was a boy and even more deeply resented the revelation that later, when B. B. was in show biz, he wore a wig that came off during the introduction of his Wild West show...
...pious who came to him hoping for instruction in prayer and contemplation would usually find themselves turning mattresses for the sick in hospitals. One woman (he was not partial to women since one had tried to seduce him ) complained to Philip that she was covered with lice from her hospital work, and his response was to tell her to eat one of them. He loved to lead pilgrimages to Rome's seven basilicas, and they took on the quality of gay outings, complete with plenty of food and wine, in which nobles rubbed shoulders with peasants and workmen...