Word: doctor
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...work. Atrocity on a national scale is mirrored by emotional aggression on a domestic scale, as Phillip'sa frustration, hostile for all its blindness, seethes at something that can't be explained or denied. Suspicions and confusion arise as if muddled foreign policy with the involvement of an equestrian doctor (Zachary Shrier '99) whose "unconventional" methods include all too casual relations with the patent...
...considering all the tethering going on--husband to wife and self-denial, doctor to patient and duty, etc.--the difficulties of putting into performance such interlacing and interlocking balances and relationships are understandable. Considering the importance of some such connections existing before fragmentation occurs, however, the Kirkland performances become tantalizing in their inevtiably new spin on Miller's Scenario...
...Take the doctor. Horse-loving Harry Hyman's always been a hearthrob to the gals but has since settled down with an appropriately braying wife (Rebekah Shoaf '00). Somewhere in him, passion lurks, to even a cautious reading of the play, to the extent that we recognize it lurking even in his cavalier attitude towards cigars. He's a doctor, but some-where his medical training (occurring, to great and ironic controversy, in Germany, because of American quotas) allowed a human weakness to slip...
Shrier takes the doctor by the Hippocratic horns--we never, ever lose the conception that the individual on stage has offered a waiting room-full of somber patients dire diagnoses that can only be delivered behind closed doors and thick desk. His tone borders on that of the tirelessly tireless banner-holders of American Progress: those great 50s sci-fi scientists intoning the mysteries of the future today. It's an admirable feat of dedicated characterization, and Shrier is here nothing if not consistent...
...extraction, as described in "The Real Partial-Birth War" [NATION, Oct. 20], is taking a surreal and dangerous turn. People who have no knowledge about this complex procedure are making restrictive judgments that could cause real harm to women. As you noted, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, doctors who deal daily with obstetric complications, are against the ban. And Physicians for Reproductive Choice and Health is vehemently opposed to the ban on the procedure and to any interference in the integrity of the patient-doctor relationship and physicians' commitment to the safe practice of medicine...