Word: sanitoriums
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...Masson is independent, perhaps looking for a cause and says he likes it. He next plans to write a book on the treatment of women in a turn of the century Swiss Sanitorium...
...parents' home, staying on until he was over 30, despite the constant noise and lack of privacy, he hesitated about leaving Prague, passing up an opportunity to study literature in Munich when he was 19 and confining himself to the city except for business trips and sanitorium stops: he hesitated about leaving his job with the Workers' Accident Insurance Institute, despite the drain on his energies and the interference with his creative work; and finally, in his relationships with women, to whom he was naturally attractive, he hesitated repeatedly, unable to sustain in person the epistolary intimacies he handled...
...brought forth the first crop of Luciani stories: the schoolboy in the foothills of the Dolomite Alps playing hookey to catch birds, the farm boy doing chores barefoot to save shoe leather for his poor family, the young seminary professor devouring books during his two sojourns in a tuberculosis sanitorium...
CALIFORNIA, that vast American raisin in the sun, is the hero in Tom Dardis's account of the Hollywood years of five writing greats. In 1937 F. Scott Fitzgerald, whose wife was in a sanitorium, whose agent was unable to sell a single manuscript, and whose earnings for all his books in print during the past year had totalled $81.18, thought that his days were numbered. So when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer offered him a $1250 a week contract to write film scripts he had no choice but to accept. That his frustrating last years in Hollywood, when he tried, desperately...
HOLLYWOOD, where the ideal and the material merge as a magnificent ante bellum set in a deserted parking lot, should have been the real paradise for the Fitzgeralds in the 30s. But by 1937, Zelda had already spent seven years in a North Carolina sanitorium. And Scott, with their daughter about to enter Vassar, his agent unable to sell a single manuscript during the past year and his total earnings from all his books in print for the same time totaling $81.18, was convinced that his life was over...