Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Scherzo to Finale. His life was without outward struggle. A doctor's son, Sibelius had been back home after his studies in Germany for only six years when the Finnish government gave him a 2,000-marks-a-year pension (about $400) so that he could devote all his time to music. He settled down with his wife in a white clapboard house at Lake Tuusula, where they raised five daughters. By the early 1920s, he had turned out 13 tone poems, seven symphonies, countless songs and choral works. He attempted an opera with no success ("I like opera...
...Last Bridge. Europe's high-powered Maria Schell. as a German doctor torn between Hitler's legions, to which she belongs, and Tito's partisans, who impress her into their service (TIME, Sept...
...books is as true to life in the backwashes of the rural South today as when he wrote it ("The rich are richer, the poor poorer"). Caldwell rarely reads. He argues that asking a writer if he has read any good books by other authors is "like asking a doctor if he's taken any good medicines lately." The father of four (the youngest is twelve), Caldwell will publish a children's book this fall, Molly Cottontail...
...between old and young. In The Duke's Children. O'Connor touches on the mythology of all the sensitive young who are convinced they must have sprung from nobler loins than those of their earthbound parents; in Fish for Friday, a man's race for the doctor to attend his pregnant wife is slowed to an alcoholic crawl by a succession of pubs and pals until the quest finally blurs into a blue forgetfulness; in A Bachelor's Story, crusty Archie Boland comes to the belated knowledge that his one narrow escape from matrimony was actually...
...often tried good-naturedly to convince a doctor-in-training friend of his that he should be more liberally educated. But the doctor won every argument with the same triumphant question. "Vag," he would say. "Assume you are about to die, and only the most delicate operation can save you. Would you choose a doctor who knew his science thoroughly, or one could quote Plato to you?" And put in these terms Vag had to admit he would choose the lopsidedly scientific doctor...