Word: morgans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When last glimpsed six years ago in A Man Called Horse, Sir John Morgan (Richard Harris) had become an honorary blood brother to a tribe of Sioux. The operative word here is blood. Morgan, an English lord on tour of the U.S. in the early 19th century, was captured by the Indians and treated as a slave. He proved his mettle and finally became one of the tribe by enduring all manner of tests and initiation rites, including a ceremony in which he was strung up by his pectorals. Manhood through pain and all that. The Sioux apparently set great...
...when first encountered in this skillful if silly sequel, he is languishing in his manor house back in Merrie Olde, yearning for the great plains and the ennobling wisdom of the red man. Also, presumably, his pectorals have not had a good workout since he returned home. So Morgan journeys back to America and goes out West, where he discovers his tribesmen in a sorry state, chased off their modest preserves by a bunch of scurvy trappers. Morgan sets about helping the Indians vanquish their oppressors...
...tabloids had an explanation: Crosby wrote poetry. Boston seemed to blame temporary insanity, dating the onset from 1922, when he quit his job with the Morgan bank in Paris, took up the literary life there and renamed his wife, Polly Peabody, "Caresse." His writer friends-he knew Hart Crane, Ernest Hemingway, Archibald MacLeish, Kay Boyle-were not surprised by the toenail paint or the tattoos. Harry did that sort of thing. What did raise an eyebrow or two, briefly, was the suicide. It seemed that Harry meant what he had said...
...apprentice might pay the master ?100 annually for as long as seven years until he "qualified" to practice on his own. By the mid-18th century, more formal training began to take hold. In 1765, after a tour of medical centers in London, Paris, Padua and Edinburgh, John Morgan persuaded the College of Philadelphia to set up the first American medical school. The prototype of the British voluntary hospital was established with the founding of the Pennsylvania Hospital in 1751, the New York in 1771 and the Massachusetts General in 1811, moving the care of the sick poor...
Fleming H. Revell Co. of Old Tappan, N.J., one of the many successful publishers fervently committed to Evangelicalism, took a gamble on Morgan, but it is marketing a predictable bestseller in Charles Colson's up-from-Wa-tergate saga Born Again (both authors made strategic appearances at the Atlantic City convention). Like Revell, Zondervan of Grand Rapids, another long-established Evangelical house, has grown rapidly-from sales of $6 million in 1970 to $30 million this year. Other firms founded in recent years have done equally well...