Word: prisoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nepalese government temporarily released the former prime minister from prison in June so he could obtain treatment in the United States for cancer. "His health is very bad," Gershman said...
...places in this world make it impossible for a man to escape from himself: a battlefield and a prison cell. In Cell 54 I could only be my own companion, day and night, and it was only natural that I should come to know that "Self" of mine. I had never had such a chance before, preoccupied as I had been with work (in the army) and politics, and hurried along by the constant stream of daily life...
...Reader's Digest that I succeeded in getting over my troubles. The gist of that article was that a shock may occur, at any stage in a man's life, which might make him feel that all avenues in front of him are blocked, that life itself is a prison cell with a perpetually locked door...
...card that had been left by Colonel Nasser. It said 'Our project is on for tonight.' My husband said nothing, but he immediately put on his uniform. I knew that something big and dangerous was about to happen and I warned him 'If you go to prison again [he had left prison only four years before] I will not visit you.' I was joking, but even so it surprised him. How ashamed I was the next day for saying...
FICTION Daniel Martin by John Fowles. With little of the narrative trickery that embellished The Magus, the author sends a Hollywood screenwriter on an engrossing psychological pilgrimage that undermines contemporary modish despair. Falconer by John Cheever. The loneliness of prison and memories is the theme of this deeply emotional novel. The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré. The further adventures of George Smiley, Britain's unlikeliest superspy, as well as a pitiless dissection of contemporary moral dilemmas. The Professor of Desire by Philip Roth. In presenting yet another of his Jewish intellectual heroes wrestling with sex and guilt...