Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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When Faulkner finished the convict's story, however, he felt that it was incomplete. He therefore wrote another novel and inserted the chapters between chapters of the convict's tale. This second novel tells of a young New Orleans doctor who runs off with another man's wife. When she becomes pregnant he performs an abortion, as a result of which she dies and he is jailed for life...
This story reverses that of the convict-the doctor, too, is trying to erect barriers against nature-and the sick, squalid, miserable sequence of events he goes through contrasts with the nightmarish but still exhilarating adventures of the convict. It does not come off: the doctor and his mistress are not credible characters, the prose is turgid and confusing. But not even careless writing can weaken the cumulative effect of Faulkner's imaginative fertility, the boldness and originality of his themes...
Voted the best picture of 1938 by the New York Motion Picture Critics, who may or may not have overlooked "Grand Illusion," "The Citadel" fully deserves the honors it has won. Based on Dr. A. J. Cronin's popular novel, this story of a young doctor fighting for his ideals in a money-mad world loses none of its effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal...
...Before Sir Wilfred Grenfell came to Newfoundland 40 years ago, the fishermen's only medical attention came from doctor men,' who had widespread reputations just like someone on Beacon Street," Curtis said...
...Lloyd Cassel Douglas' family have a way of blossoming at the age of 50. His father, a worldly, small-town lawyer for 30 years, suddenly turned preacher. He himself, though he wanted to be a doctor, was also a preacher for three sober decades. In the midst of a series of essays on Personality Expansion Through Private Philanthropy, he decided to write a novel. Magnificent Obsession, published (1929) when he was 52, sold about 225,000 copies. Forgive Us Our Trespasses (1932) and Green Light (1935) sold 267,256 copies. Reason: in his novels he kept right on writing...