Word: doc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Familiar Scenery. Greene's characters follow predestined paths to nowhere, past all the familiar Greeneland scenes: pursuit, betrayal, suicide, failure, adulterous love. Brown is returning to the hotel-emptied of tourists by Papa Doc Duvalier's inhospitable island regime-that he has been unable to sell in the States. Smith, a 1948 U.S. presidential candidate who polled 10,000 votes on the vegetarian ticket, dreams of converting the Haitians to a diet of Yeastrol and Nuttoline. Jones drifts in and out of focus as an ambiguous, flat-footed soldier of fortune so encircled by his enemies that Port...
Joel Oppenheimer's play was written, certainly, with good intentions. Centering around three cowboy desperadoes crossing the Western plains, it seeks to bitterly expose the great American romance for what it was. Doc Holliday, Wyatt Earp, Billy the Kid, and Wild Bill Hickock sit on a raised platform (that's heaven, pardner) and from time to time offer "commercials" on "The Sixgun That Won The West," "The Indians of the Americas--A Veritable Tower of Babel," and such. The format is funny and the commercials (and their delivery) are for the most part very funny. Near...
...spontaneous. At Phu Bai, marines organized scrubins for the village toddlers. Army Captain Ronald Rod, before he was killed by a Viet Cong sniper in December, collected enough money and supplies to get an orphanage started by writing to a New Orleans newspaper. On his own initiative, Navy Medic "Doc" Lucier, a burly, open-faced Negro from Birmingham, Ala., braves booby-trapped trails to give shots, distribute drugs and administer first-aid in out of the way villages. "There's just got to be something more than bullets," he says. "Until we start treating these people like human beings...
Outside, there was a chilly London night. Inside a Georgia accent interrupted the click of chips and slap of cards. "Hey, Doc, you got a winning pill?" Doc looked back across the table. His reply was short and savage: "I'd be taking it myself." Then Doc turned back to the blackjack table. He lost $240 in the next four minutes...
...Doc and his friend were two of 178 Americans who arrived in London last week from Atlanta on a gambling junket. They had come partly because they had never been to London and partly because, after Las Vegas, London has become the biggest gambling center in the world. So big, in fact, that a few clubs can now afford the Vegas gambit of flying in big gamblers, most expenses paid, and count on making a profit from the money their guests lose...