Word: lupus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...brother of Gunsmoke's Jim Arness, browses through photos of available M:I agents. He invariably chooses Barbara Bain, the group's sexy smoke screen; Martin Landau (in real life Barbara's husband), master of sleight of hand and disguise; Greg Morris, ace engineer; and Peter Lupus, strong man. The team sets off to the rescue without informing the audience of its plan-which is always a variation of the con game. Each operative wins the enemy's trust by playing a separate innocent role; together, they catch the villain off balance when everything clicks...
Mary Flannery O'Connor had the luck of the Irish, or seemed to. At 25 she was pretty, witty, and had published fiction in some of the best little magazines. At 26, she came down with an incurable form of lupus erythematosus, a correlative of arthritis that softened the bones in her legs and lower face, eventually reduced her to crutches and permanent debility. But Author O'Connor had the stubbornness of the Irish, too. During the next 13 years, passed mostly in seclusion on her mother's farm near Milledgeville, Ga., she wrote unremittingly. Before...
...explored the South's religious curiosities, finding among them such an appalling collection of lunatic prophets and murderous fanatics that one critic called her "a literary white witch," and she herself said, "I write from 9 to 12, and spend the rest of the day recuperating"; of lupus erythematosus (a rare tissue disease); in Milledgeville...
...Flannery O'Connor is a retiring, bookish spinster who dabbles in the variants of sin and salvation like some self-tutored backwoods theologian. She is an earnest Roman Catholic who raises geese and peacocks on the family farm near Milledgeville, Ga., which she rarely leaves; she suffers from lupus (a tuberculous disease of the skin and mucous membranes) that forces her to spend part of her life on crutches. Despite such relative immobility, Author O'Connor manages to visit remote and dreadful places of the human spirit. In Wise Blood (TIME, June 9 1952) and A Good...