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...Greeks have a word for emigres who, once poverty-stricken, return to visit their native land flush with the prosperity of half a lifetime in the U.S. They call them heelobowie, a rough approximation of "hello boy." In many a Greek village, the returning heelobowie ranks almost as a patron saint; each village strives to outdo its neighbors in providing a lavish welcome for him, and even after his return to the land of his adoption, legends of his largesse live on among the villagers...
...been stricken a scant five years' earlier, Toni (a twin with a normal, healthy brother) would not have lived more than four to six months. As it is, she has been kept going since March by regular blood transfusions and a variety of drugs. Doctors can now point to youngsters with acute leukemia who are living happily and almost normally three years or more after the disease struck. A diagnosis of acute leukemia is still a sentence of death, but each discovery prolongs the reprieves that medicine can grant. Doctors hope that they may soon find...
...author also, as it happens, tried to "justify the ways of God to men." Certainly Greene's priest cannot justify them; he can only insist that they are somehow just. Greene's Jansenist mind-again in Milton's words-"can make a Hell of Heaven"; his stricken world suggests his fellow Catholic Francis Thompson...
...could not lift a hand to play his cards, because he was paralyzed, but he told the nurse who held them what he wanted to play. He saw the cards only by reflection in the mirror over his face. For 18 years and seven months, since he was stricken with polio, Fred Snite had been bound to an iron lung...
...symbol of dark terror, has been flung open to tourists and its rooms made over for children's celebrations and public meetings. The members of the junta have taken to bounding around the country like so many politicians running for office: Malenkov may suddenly appear in a disaster-stricken town, Khrushchev may show up in Siberia...