Word: sanatorium
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Rack, by A. E. Ellis. The hero of this chilling novel fights to remain alive in a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium...
...Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A chilling novel of a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium in which hope dies quickly, the patients more slowly...
...Rack, by A. E. Ellis. A chilling, sometimes sickening novel of a cynically run tuberculosis sanatorium, in which hope dies quickly, the patients more slowly...
BRIGHTEST star among the bright young architects of the 1930s was a dour-looking, dynamic Finn named Alvar Aalto. His TB sanatorium at Paimio, Finland, with its cantilevered decks, was a landmark in the new international style. Almost singlehanded he had made wood a "modern material," used it in a dazzling variety of ways-an undulating ceiling for a library in Viipuri, an undulating wall for the Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair-and the tastemakers of the era all sat in Aalto's curved plywood chairs. But as the glass-and-steel revolution...
...cemetery of Europe." In this macabre mountain spot appears the novel's hero: Paul Davenant, a British World War II veteran, lately a Cambridge student, now sick and broke. He is a charity case who, with many others, is supported by an international student association at a sanatorium called Les Alpes. Davenant hopes, as do all the patients, that Les Alpes is only an interlude, a place where bracing air, good food, and the wonders of modern medicine will bring back a normal life and freedom from the threat of relapse. Many of the patients are graduates of other...