Word: ward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME'S delightful and excellent Feb. 25 portrait of an emergency ward, "Saturday Night," is a perfect summary of what takes place each weekend in King's County Hospital, Bellevue or Morrisania...
RETURN TO CHESTERTON (336 pp.)-Masie Ward-Sheed & Ward...
Biographer Maisie Ward was entitled to a contented sigh when she finished Gilbert Keith Chesterton nine years ago. It was (and is) the most thorough account ever written of that man-mountain of modern English letters. But Author Ward's book was hardly off the presses before she began to find fascinating new bits and pieces of Chestertoniana. Return to Chesterton is her 336-page postscript...
...Vials of Gloom? Some of his acquaintances could not believe that his idiosyncrasies were genuine: "I always felt Chesterton was an actor," one of them told Maisie Ward. "He played a part and dressed a part." And when O.K. became a Catholic, even G.B.S. was shaken into protesting: "This is going too far." On the other hand, his more extravagant admirers regarded him as a pure & simple saint-a man "taught by the Holy Ghost...
Biographer Ward's own opinion is that Chesterton's "ready acceptance of life's normal pleasures" rules him out of saintly ranks. But it does not put him among those who, precisely because they "fail to reach sanctity . . . pour out upon us the vials of their gloom." Chesterton ranks, she believes, among the "spiritual geniuses" of the human race-"to which," as G.K. once observed, "so many of my readers belong...