Word: alan
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should listen to the modern Hippocratic statement made by Alan Alda-a man acting as a doctor imploring doctors...
Grigorenko, now 70, need not have worried. The old soldier was stripped of Soviet citizenship in 1978, and found asylum (political, that is) in the U.S. Reich and colleagues, including Psychiatrists Alan Stone of Harvard and Lawrence Kolb of Columbia, conducted their elaborate mental and neurological tests anyway. The verdict: the tough, bald-pated general is as solid as the Kremlin's walls, with nary a crack in his mental armor...
...hero of Lucky Jim, Kingsley Amis' first novel, was an exasperated rather than an angry young man. While characters out of John Osborne, Alan Sillitoe and others raged against the ossifying and stultifying British class system, Amis' feckless young professor did his best to fit in. Unfortunately, or fortunately, Jim's private loathing for the nest of ninnies that ruled his academic career kept coming to the fore. It was one thing to make secret faces when other backs were turned or to plan baroque revenges against his superiors, but quite another to wind up drunk...
...Alan A. Stone '50, professor of Law and Psychiatry, concurs. He says there is no way that the "court can give more enlightened efforts" than doctors, and that relying on the courts "is an incredibly laborious process," which is not conducive to the "moment-to-moment" decisions that medicine often requires...
...everybody's favorite doctor never dissected a frog in med school, never made rounds as an intern, never even earned an M.D. degree. No matter. When Actor Alan Alda, 43, known to millions of televiewers as Army Captain Hawkeye Pierce of the Korean War-era 4077th Mobile Army Surgical Hospital (M*A*S*H), spoke at the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons commencement last week, he was absolutely right in telling the class, "In some ways you and I are alike. We both study the human being. We both try to reduce suffering. We've both...