Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...audience had held still, the name-dropping doctor could have continued in this style for half an hour. For the anatomy and pathology of the female reproductive system are bound up with the names of pioneers who explored their mysteries. Virtually all these pioneers were males, so in any technical account of a woman's intimate life there are many more men than she suspects. The most notable, numbering 101, are the heroes of Obstetric and Gynecologic Milestones (Macmillan; $15), by Obstetrician-Gynecologist Harold Speert of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center...
...service paid to foreign languages in the high school, is, I am afraid, a direct reflection of lip service paid in the colleges and universities. I strongly suspect that the proficiency in a foreign language that is often required for a bachelor's degree -indeed, for a doctor's degree-is the product of perfunctory timeserving in a minimum number of courses...
...Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, by the great Russian poet who won 1958's Nobel Prize but was forced to refuse it by Big Brotherland...
...Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book without a country that honors all humanity, including Russia, though its rulers kept their country's greatest living poet from accepting the Nobel Prize...
...Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...