Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...emergency, it sends out a signal that from as far away as 300 feet (92 meters) triggers into action a larger unit containing a tape cassette and player. Plugged into a telephone jack, the device automatically dials a series of preprogrammed numbers-an ambulance service, say, then a doctor's office-and sounds the appropriate taped message for each. Samples: "There is a medical emergency at the home of John Smith. Please send an ambulance immediately." "Dr. Jones, there is an emergency at the home of your patient, John Smith, and an ambulance has been summoned...
Stan's surprising decision to be a doctor comes after his consummation with Maggie along with the justification "because I want to, it makes me happy." Tim, the rational one, tells Stan he is doing the right thing for the wrong reasons. The characters try to hash out what is reality and what is fantasy, and what is right and what is wrong. But in the end, they have the sense to do what we all want to do--even the sane and sober Tim, who finds the courage to take Marcie by the hand, leaving behind all the embarrassments...
...protagonist of "Lover," for example, is a young doctor who becomes obsessed with a mad girl who was brought to his hospital one night battered and raped. The girl seems to symbolize for him the void that underlies his cozy bourgeois life. If it were not for one small detail that Oates adds to the story, the doctor's obsession would be noble, or at any rate much better than middle class complacency. But at the end of the story we learn that the doctor had become sexually excited while examining the girl for evidence of rape. This detail, combined...
...attack in late July. During his two month convalescence in Miami, some of Somoza's underlings attempted to usurp power in anticipation of the dictator's death. At the same time traditional opponents advanced their demands for political reforms. On his return to the country, Somoza--who remains under doctor's orders not to work more than three hours a day--dismissed the overly-ambitious officials, but in doing so he exacerbated the internal divisions within the state and military apparatus...
...Ocean with his own private army. "The character I play is different from the usual," says Rex. "Sir John is slightly tougher and demented and more sadistic." He is also crafty. To scare off a band of would-be murderers, he dons his mad hat and plays a witch doctor...