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...users are free to choose their doc tor and to change doctors when they wish. Britain's doctors are in turn free to choose whether they will join NHS or not; 98% have chosen to do so. They may join the service and still take private patients on the side, for fees. If they stay out, they rely on private patients entirely...
Wozzeck, Good Soldier Schweik and Private Hargrove. Bone-tired from flying endless missions (the required number is always raised every time he becomes eligible for Stateside shipment by the evil Colonel Cathcart, who wants to be a general), Yossarian decides one day to go crazy. Doc Daneeka, the flight surgeon, agrees that he has to ground anyone who's crazy; all one has to do is ask. "And then you can ground him?'' Yossarian inquires. "No. Then I can't ground him." "You mean there's a catch?" "Sure there's a catch," Doc...
Died. Archibald Thompson ("Doc") Davison, 77, small, spry conductor of the famed Harvard Glee Club from 1912 to 1933, who sounded a serious note throughout the collegiate musical world by substituting Mendelssohn for Mrs. Casey's Boarding House in the club's repertory, led the troupe on a European tour in 1921 and in 35 concerts with the Boston Symphony; of uremia; in Brant Rock, Mass...
...important point about his famous transformation of the Glee Club is that he did not accomplish it by dictating repertoire or purging those who opposed him. "Doc," as he soon came to be called, felt college men were intelligent enough to have good judgement but had taste plastic enough to be molded. He first improved the quality of the Club's singing, and then persuaded them to try some classical pieces in rehearsal. The first, Mendelssohn's The Huntsman's Farewell, appealed to them so strongly that they agreed to sing it in St. Louis in 1915 before a surprised...
...Doc" explained later in Choral Conducting, rehearsals were the key to the Club's quality and to his educational aims. A short, strongly built man, he moved swiftly but unostentatiously on the podium, evoking the response he wanted rather by an expressive face and pair of hands than by the discursiveness he often condemned in conductors. Davison always believed that music could speak for itself and that explanation of contrapuntal technique or rhapsodizing on Schubert only frustrated that desire to sing which is natural to a well-trained chorus...