Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Doctor Zhivago has sold more hardcover editions in the United States than any other book since Peyton Place. It was the most popular literary Christmas present of the 1958 holiday season. The proportion of pages read to books bought must be more lopsided than that of the Gideon Bible. And one of the biggest reasons for the disparity is reader fatigue; the busy man must choose between the book itself and the welter of commentary...
...Grace-Cary has added the Rev. Walter Preedy. In this hollow-chested, egotistical evangelist, the sense of God is like a torment. His specialty is faith healing. To him and to his followers in the London suburb of Pant's Road, it is blasphemy to call a doctor, for that is an admission that God is incapable of miracles. Preedy seems to have worked quite a few miracles himself, and his fame is spreading. This in spite of the known fact that he has seduced a 14-year-old girl, got her pregnant, and allowed her baby...
...Doctor's Dilemma. A careful, rather too conventional interpretation of a strange and sometimes brilliant play that sheds less light on its subject than it does on the mind of Playwright Bernard Shaw, who sometimes dates but never sedates...
...Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. With world sales of at least 1,500,000 copies, the book without a country continues to race through the inner space of humanity's heart and conscience...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...