Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...reference to the March 4 picture showing Krishna Menon having his blood pressure taken after he collapsed at the U.N.: next time Krishna Menon is asked to pose with his doctor for a picture, he should first remove his coat and roll up his sleeve. I'll be damned if anyone, even an Indian yogi, could hear through all that wool...
...York it's either 8:30 or 8:40. In Cambridge it's usually 8:30, but at the Peabody Playhouse the curtain is at 8 p.m. The HDC's Doctor's Dilemma is at the Playhouse...
...Doctor's Dilemma, George Bernard Shaw takes some roundhouse swings at the medical profession. The Harvard Dramatic Club production of the play makes his blows land where they should--but only occasionally. The truth is that Shaw himself sometimes misses, for this is not one of his most satisfactory plays. It contains the usual quota of talk, and much of it is brilliant. But there are other long stretches when the great Shavian spring of wit runs dry, and the playwright's dislike of doctors appears as little more than a querulous mania. The most unfortunate part of the play...
That problem concerns a physician's choice of whether to cure a patient or to let him die. The patient, dying of tuberculosis, is a brilliant young artist who is also a detestable human being. The doctor is the discoverer of a miraculously effective cure, which, however, only he knows how to apply. Since his clinic holds only one more available bed, he is forced to decide between healing the artist or another doctor, who is not particularly talented but a good and dedicated man. He ultimately picks the fine man rather than fine art--but that unhappy last...
...these performances fail to be consistently effective, the fault is partly that of the director, Richard Smithies. While inventive enough in his staging, Smithies sometimes lets the pace of the production lag. But then, The Doctor's Dilemma contains some stretches which would strain the abilities of any drama group...