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Entering Boston's Beth Israel Hospital for surgery, Carol Wein, 22, of Brookline, Mass., wondered at first if she had come to the wrong place. Instead of the usual sterile hospital lobby, she found a large, warmly decorated room with brightly colored window hangings and a garden of potted palms and dra-caenas off to the side. In the second-floor admissions area, she was interviewed, not at a crowded public desk but in a small, tastefully decorated private office. Corridors were carpeted and traditional hospital smells and white walls were conspicuously absent. After Wein settled into her stylishly...
...Carol's pleasant welcome reminded her of an episode from TV's Medical Center. But Beth Israel, a major teaching facility of Harvard Medical School, is a real-life institution. Opened only a few weeks ago at a cost of $16 million, Beth Israel's posh 176-bed Feldberg Building has already won a reputation among patients as the hotel with nurses and operating rooms. It is far more than that. More than a decade in the planning, the wing caps a long campaign by Beth Israel's innovative director, Dr. Mitchell Rabkin, 45, to ensure...
...vibrant lyricism and common-sense demeanor to make Serena an appropriately righteous foil to Bess. Larry Marshall's Sportin' Life could use a touch more evil but is admirable in his dandified elusiveness. The depth of this cast is suggested by the presence of the veteran contralto Carol Brice, a regular on the concert scene since the 1940s, in the minor role of a neighborhood scold named Maria...
...asks a sensible question: Why is George trying to guess about a woman he's never met? Ron tears into him -it isn't guessing, it's experiencing, and George's experience of the woman is simply different from Carol...
...junior est employee named George comes onstage to demonstrate "the personality profile"-or how to experience people we have never met. George settles into a trance to experience a New Jersey housewife who is not in the group but is an acquaintance of Carol's, a sixtyish woman who is. Does the housewife like playing cards? "Yes," says George, clawing the air with both hands for inspiration. He sees a happy card game with a bowl of peanuts on the table. "No," says Carol, "she never plays cards." George gets about 80% of the questions wrong...