Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that other members of the family would gather at the festive board. Already lined up this season: one homey fracas in which mom knows best, another in which grandpa takes over the Socratic chores. ¶Donna Reed (ABC, Wed., 9-9:30 p.m.), mother of two, wife of a doctor, is an inoffensive archetype of the mythical figure whose chuckleheadedness is just a cheery wrapper around an infallible intuitive wisdom. In time for the final embrace, she usually squashes at least half a dozen domestic crises (mostly of her own making) and straightens out whatever is troubling the neighbors...
Sarcastically, he reviewed the recommended procedure: "If the demon seems at all active, the priest or doctor should refer it to the bishop. Then, if the demon understands Latin and the bishop thinks a case has been made for exorcism, he should consult a panel of priests and doctors for diagnosis. After the panel has reported, the bishop may proceed to do something about it. But what is the demon going to do? He may be an Anglican demon-or he may lack completely the kind of intelligence an Anglican shows when an appeal is made to the bishop...
...Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. Russia's greatest living poet affirms in Russia's greatest novel since the Revolution that not even Communism can destroy his people's hopes and humanity...
...marriage was ill-starred and the ioman Catholic wife, the former Marie Carmichael Stopes, eventually got an annulment. From years of married frustration (the church recognized her as virgo intacta), the 38-year-old doctor of science, authority on paleobotany (fossils) ind coal, drew the inspiration for a tract on what the marriage bed should be. Its title: Married Love...
...Case of Dr. Laurent (French). Frankly polemic, frankly physiological, this story of a rural doctor hipped on natural childbirth can claim the virtues of warmth and humor even before the moving, utterly candid final scene; with Jean Gabin, Nicole Courcel...