Word: samaritanism
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...Craig bit him and took a hunk out of his thumb and the man said, 'Your baby has strong teeth. He just bit me.'" Craig recovered from the convulsions brought on by a fever, but it was several days before Mrs. Chasnov found out who the good Samaritan was. An aide casually telephoned from New York's City Hall to say that Mayor John Lindsay was interested in knowing how the lad was getting along...
...this lurid, leaden adaptation of a novel by Marguerite Duras, who also wrote Hiroshima, Mon Amour. While the screen moodily changes color, turning from light sepia to silvery grey and all but blushing with shame, Melina plays up the purple of her role as a sort of sick Samaritan. "How do you stond dee pain?" she wheezes, speaking of life itself. "Geev me a dhrink, Paul." But liquor is the least of her problems. Voyeurism and incipient lesbianism are enough to make any young matron restive...
...folk will act like sinners,/Unless they have their customary dinners." To his surprise, Gilkey discovered that the most devout missionaries were not immune from selfishness. Even ministers began to squabble with their fellow prisoners bout food shares and steal from communal supplies. Forgetting the lesson of the Good Samaritan, missionaries with families bluntly refused to share any portion of their living area with others who needed space. One preacher went so far as to contend that he needed extra room "in which I can have quiet to think out sermons." All in all, Gilkey concludes, life at Weihsien...
Three days later, the Tunku (from Kuala Lumpur) announced that the missing Tun had been turned in. In Canberra, the protocol chieftain explained that "a good Samaritan" had brought him back in a car from Sydney, 200 miles away, after a ten-day absence. The mysterious Samaritan was said to have found the envoy, ill and vomiting, wandering in Sydney shortly after he disappeared, cared for him during the next eight days, and conveniently discovered who he was for the first time on the ninth...
...Hocky" were merely good friends who often got together for a chat between floor shows, and that she had no idea where he had been. To all questions, Protocol Chieftain Abdul Rahman had no real answers. "My friend," he said, cryptically, "I can assure you there was a good Samaritan...