Word: max
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Max Wietzman, a fifth grade Dorchester school teacher, was suspended last Friday by the Boston School Committee pending final action on the case. The committee termed him an "unfit, undesirable and improper person to teach in the Boston School System...
...Max Surkont pitched a three-hitter as the Milwaukee Braves beat the Cincinnati Redlegs 2 to 0 in the first game of the National League's 1953 baseball season in Cincinnati . . . The American League opener, between the Yankees and the Washington Senators in the nation's capital was postponed because of rain. President Eisenhower will now throw out the first pitch in Washington Thursday when the Senators face the Yankees. . . All 16 major league clubs are scheduled to see action today, and the weatherman forecasts that all games will be played . . . Babe Zaharias, famous woman athlete, will undergo an operation...
There were four of them in the mental ward. Old Max would imagine that he smelled the scent of pines, and he wouldbe back on Hill 299, fighting the Boche. Coselli listened to the charge of wild horses in his head. Bébert, a veteran of the Spanish civil war, kept hearing the laughter of the dead. The fourth patient, "the Druid," constantly saw beside him him the head of Christ, crowned with thorns and bleeding...
...bert, struggling up the road to recovery, falls in love with a nurse named Jany. Old Max sinks deeper into his fantasies. Coselh spends days weeping over the portrait of his son, "little Guy Charles Stéphane Coselli''-though he has no son. Coselli does have a wife, however: the nurse Jany, who has come to work in the hospital to be near him. Tangled together in their nightmares and obsessions, Bébert and Coselli make their escape from the hospital, frantically trying to assert themselves as free...
Toward the end, the violence of language and action becomes somewhat wearisome. But the book is redeemed by Novelist Molaine's deep sense of fraternity with the poor wretches about whom he writes, his admiration for that dim, human feeling which keeps Old Max and Coselli together in a brotherly embrace even as they surrender to their manias, "one barking, the other whinnying, one a dog, the other a horse." And the wild, rhetorical prayer that Bébert casts up in his misery also speaks for Novelist Molaine: "Father here we are in the ooze, inert as fishes...