Word: morten
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Clinic was founded in 1926 by Dr. Morten Prince, a noted Harvard psychologist, amid rumors that it had been set up to analyze the Faculty. At that time the philosophy department was in charge of the strange new science: the thought of being held responsible for the antics of the maniacs they imagined were under care at the Clinic trouble the sleep of the philosophers for many years...
...Lewis' setting is Denmark in the middle 17th Century and her writing, as clean as a peeled twig, traces a clear outline of a dark Scandinavian story. The fearless Pastor of Vejlby, Soren Qvist, prayed God to relieve him of the passion of anger. But when the insolent Morten Bruus asked for his only daughter in marriage, Soren hurled him to the ground. The title of the novel refers not only to the actual trial of the Pastor for murder, with which he was eventually charged, but to the spiritual ordeal that preceded...
...yard swim--won by O. P. Morten V-12 (H); second, W. L. Harding V-12 (H). Time...