Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Mister Roberts' Doctor...
Your picture caption on the smash hit, Mister Roberts, reads David Wayne, Henry Fonda, William Harrigan [TIME, March 1]. Rather believe the last one is Robert Keith, the ship's doctor. The ship's captain, William Harrigan, spends little time with his men, certainly had no time to help the rest prepare a homemade alcoholic concoction...
...bloody raids of the Mauretanians, the Chief Ranger "administered fear in small doses which he gradually increased, and which aimed at crippling resistance. The role he played in the disorders . . . was that of a power for order . . . like an evil doctor who first encourages the disease so that he may practice on the sufferer. . . ." To terrorize his opponents the Chief Ranger has a "flaying-hut" where "a skull was nailed fast, showing its teeth and seeming to invite entry with its grin. . . . Such are the dungeons above which rise the proud castles of the tyrants, and from them...
Said black-tied widower Rines: "I want it determined whether a doctor can lie to you.... Medical ethics requires that doc-tors are responsible to one another. I want a ruling on that. . . . Doctors are always passing the buck...
...Robinson was something of a puzzle to the citizens of his home town, Gardiner, Me. In his family he suffered from his status as the youngest-and unwanted-child, unable to gain the love of his inaccessible sexagenarian father. In the town his only kindred spirit was an eccentric doctor, more interested in composing vil-lanelles than in dosing colds. Among the boys & girls of his own age he was ill at ease, his mind roaming in regions they neither could nor wished to enter...