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...hard now to recall the sheer terror that was once connected to the word polio. The incidence of the disease had risen sharply in the early part of this century, and every year brought the threat of another outbreak. Parents were haunted by the stories of children stricken suddenly by the telltale cramps and fever. Public swimming pools were deserted for fear of contagion. And year after year polio delivered thousands of people into hospitals and wheelchairs, or into the nightmarish canisters called iron lungs. Or into the grave. In the worst year of epidemic, 1952, when nearly...
Another vulture has descended on Oklahoma City to profit from the tragedies of grief-stricken people there. Johnnie Cochran Jr. has filed a class action against a Texas company that made the fertilizer allegedly used as an ingredient in the bomb [OKLAHOMA CITY, May 22]. That's like blaming knife sellers for the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. Jean Wilson Oklahoma City, Oklahoma...
...fine, really," she said in response to my stricken look, almost too quickly. "In fact, you'll be better than fine. But I wouldn't have felt right sending you off without warning you, that...
...play is set in 1665. The King has deserted plague stricken London, leaving Sir John Lawrence (Colin Stokes), Lord Mayor of London, to procure doctors and sign certificates granting leave from the city. Dr. Edward Harmon's (Michael Stone) forces him to stay in the city despite the increasing danger. John Graunt (Brad Rouse) examines the Bills of Mortality and compiles statistics which he believes will help combat the plague. Rouse is incredibly sincere; he makes his troubles immediate. As the play's narrator, Rouse's performance is enthusiastic and solicitous of the audience's sympathy--it gives the show...
...folks who live nearby are generally aware of the hospital's function-at times perhaps overly so. Recently locals brought in an elderly woman who, hysterical and speaking nothing but Greek, was assumed to be stricken with Jerusalem Syndrome. In fact, she was a tourist who had simply taken the wrong bus and wound up in an unfamiliar neighborhood-upset, yes, but in no immediate danger of assuming divinity...