Word: sickroom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...difficult beginnings than Munch. They might have crushed his talent; instead they gave it a permanent irritability. His family was sunk in a kind 'of permanent neurasthenia, the petit-bourgeois provincial twilight known to every reader of Strindberg or Ibsen. He was, almost literally, raised in the family sickroom, in a dreadful atmosphere of whispers, enforced silences, vomit, snot and the cold stink of carbolic acid...
...blow account of how Chiang Ch'ing, the wife of Chairman Mao Tse-tung, murdered her ailing husband last year, offering the latest twist in the continuing campaign against Madame Mao. Three of the Chairman's physicians charged that when the ailing Mao was sleeping in his sickroom, Chiang Ch'ing would yell at him, brandishing documents under his nose. Then she made her first attempt with an improbable blunt instrument. This was a high-wattage lamp that she cunningly placed on Mao's bedside table. Though "in dread of heat," he survived. Then Chiang...
...seemingly futile struggle to keep el Caudillo alive was waged inside the second-floor bedroom of the turreted El Pardo Palace outside Madrid, where a 24-man team of doctors attended him round the clock. The medical bulletins that streamed from the sickroom told of "cardiac insufficiency," "gastric hemorrhaging," "intestinal paralysis," "blood clotting" and at least five heart attacks over a 13-day period. Yet the 82-year-old Franco, who a week earlier was believed to be only hours away from death, hung on-just as he had hung on to absolute power for nearly four decades...
...closest and oldest aides refused to concur. When told about the doctors' announcement of Franco's setback, Arias apparently rushed to El Pardo Palace to get a signature on a document transferring authority to Juan Carlos. The doctors, however, stopped the Premier from entering the sickroom, warning that "it would kill Franco to take a pen in his hand...
...literature at Princeton, Nathan acted for a time as Mishima's translator; among other things, he impressed Mishima the muscle builder by being able to beat him at arm wrestling. Nathan's access to Mishima's family and friends yields fascinating gossip: details of the damp sickroom in which Mishima's dictatorial grandmother raised him until he was twelve, of his puritanical father's efforts to steer him away from writing and into the respectable civil service. When Mishima was only four, his father thought that he would instill manliness in him by holding...