Word: treatment
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government admitted "there is no guarantee the volunteer will be given good treatment on the farms," but protested, "We are not responsible for his landing with a bad employer. There are bad employers everywhere." Minimum standards of rations and free medical care are urged, but, conceded the government, "these requirements cannot be enforced-they are merely suggestions to the farmer...
Premier Khrushchev's treatment of Boris Pasternak after the publication of Pasternak's Nobel Prize winning novel Doctor Zhivago is an example of what happens when a despot poses as an intellectual, James H. Bellington, Research Fellow in the Russian Research Center stated, at one of the four forums yesterday morning...
Decay & Disorder. In a flurry of understanding, Rome gave Orano a hero's welcome, with gifts of a TV set. books and money, and promises of special consideration in the Lazzaretto Spallanzani. (Despite intensive treatment in France with sulfone drugs, the once powerful Orano was by this time gnarled and weakened, his handsome face disfigured, his blue eyes clouded.) But the promises were soon forgotten. Roman bureaucrats enforced the letter of antiquated Italian law. They let the faithful Giulia live with him in an isolated cottage (he is the only leprosy victim in Spallanzani), forced her to take full...
...under the strain, Giulia Orano begged the Roman press to help rescue her and her husband from "terror and desperation . . . decay, disorder and dirt." Only the Communist L'Unitd gave her space and grudging, lukewarm support. In all of Italy there are 300 leprosy victims confined and under treatment, but an estimated 2,000 are hiding out (and therefore going untreated) because they fear a fate like Orano...
...Sound and the Fury. Faulkner's novel disinfected, but still given the best movie treatment yet of any of his works...