Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Another patient who went to the circus instead of a cemetery is Little Joe, also eight. Within ten days, isoniazid ended his unbearable headache and loosened his stiff spine and neck. Now Little Joe is the life of the men's ward at Winslow Indian Sanatorium, first up in the morning and (complain the tired oldsters) the last to turn in at night...
...Heng-chang, the much-publicized labor hero, the Chinese Stakhanov of "Inside Red China" [TIME, April 9] could not stand the production pace set up by himself and his brigade, and has suffered a complete mental collapse. He became a nervous wreck, and had to be taken to a sanatorium in Manchuria last August. This was unwittingly slipped through a report in a Communist newspaper, the Yangtse Daily, published in Hankow...
...months ago, Dr. Kamarauskas took his radiology exam and failed. Even though he knew he could take it over again in January, he became nervous and depressed. He developed acute tonsillitis, his kidneys became infected. Friends at St. Bernard's took him to an Indiana sanatorium for a few weeks' rest, and sent a box of neckties for Christmas...
...Maugham's short stories are most often trick tales which surprise in conclusion, most often they characterize acutely, and inevitably they are amusing. In Maugham's "Trio," the audience is treated to these three Maugham standards, but that is not all, as if more is necessary. The third story, "Sanatorium" has not only the Maugham requisites but it is also sentimental, as is "The Kites" in "Quartet." Sentimentality is inconsistent with either Maugham's wit or characterization...
...players objectively, since their idyosyncrasies are to be laughed at, not pitied, and their conscious humor to be enjoyed. For the audience, there is no possible emotional involvement with Maugham characters; they are on display only. Thus, when Maugham introduces a sentimental romance between TB victims in "Sanatorium," the audience is uncomfortable, as all along it has been concerned with characters and not with tormented souls. An audience must be in a sentimental mood before tears can be shed...