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...best describing this weird life in which sudden death, plague and all sorts of violence are regarded as quite normal. He knows his leprosariums, too, and can make it clear why even intelligent lepers often prefer beggars' freedom to the routine of hospitals. Govind finally reaches an asylum where lepers live as a community, raising all they need and living normal lives. He is cured and returns to his family. But what matters in The Mask of a Lion is not the happy ending; it is the sympathy and shrewdness with which Author Simeons introduces his unusual characters...
...flourished on empty stomachs. When Edna was 14, her poems began to appear in St. Nicholas Magazine; when she was 20, Renascence made her famous. She was an oldish 21 when a benefactor sent her to Vassar, a school she at first disliked: "They treat us like an orphan asylum . . . A man is forbidden as if he were an apple." At the same time she wrote to her mother for a Bible ("You know it by heart, so you don't need it. But I really do need it, Mother dear . . ."), and took part in impromptu student prayer meetings...
...Heflin plays the tortured man with rare balance. As the doctors force his personality into a crippling semblance of text-book sanity, he realizes he must bend or remain permanently in an insane asylum. Behind the doctors is always his wife, their symbol of sanity, and finally he grovels before her rather than remain with the terror of the hospital's inmates and its cold, insensitive physicians. Gradually, then, Heflin's will bends, and breaks completely...
...have felt that they had revenged themselves sufficiently on paternal piety. But not Crowley. "I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise," he wrote, "I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong." When World War I began, he left Ouarda in an insane asylum and hurried to the U.S., where he spent the early war years writing pro-German propaganda for George Sylvester Viereck's The Fatherland...
...week's end, perhaps the best indication of the tension in Bogotá was the fact that Liberal ex-President Alfonso López and Liberal Chieftain Carlos Lleras Restrepo, whose houses had been burned by the same mobs that sacked El Tiempo, took asylum in the Venezuelan embassy...