Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...translating and adapting opera librettos, decided to switch the locale from the Rome of 1800 to an unspecified modern Eastern European capital. Scarpia, chief of the Roman police, became a Communist cop, and his enemies, the Bonapartists, became simply freedom fighters or "subversives." All told, Gutman had to doctor only 25 lines. The underling of Act II who formerly rushed in to announce that Bonaparte had won the battle of Marengo, now cries: "Our tanks were fired upon!" Tosca (Soprano Beverly Sills) hears the screams of her lover, who is being tortured offstage, over the intercom. (Scarpia...
...French Revolution was the establishment of free spas, so that the peasant could wash out his diseases side by side with the rich man. Since World War II, the French social-security system subsidizes a trip to a spa for nearly any suffering Frenchman who can get his doctor to sign his application. Last year the government paid for between 80% and 100% of the cure cost of some 68,000 adults and children...
Although no doctor knows quite how the springs work, there is some evidence that they often work very well. One follow-up survey showed that the water cure helps between 53% and 70% of patients with certain types of asthma, improves more than half of the patients with skin diseases. Most French doctors let their patients take the waters on the theory that they will do no harm, and may do some good. "Cures always have a hygienic value," says Professor Pierre Delore of the University of Lyon's Faculty of Medicine. "They are an occasion for giving calm...
Writing in the current British Medical Journal, London's Dr. Richard P. Michael gives the case history of a 28-year-old man who was a spectacular example of the Gilles de la Tourette syndrome (named for the French doctor who outlined the symptoms in 1885). The patient developed a tic at the age of seven, was an accomplished curser at 13, when even the reading of Tom Sawyer would set him off on a string of oaths. When he entered the British army at 18, he unaccountably stopped swearing, nevertheless managed to make sergeant...
...announced after a three-hour session that because Dr. Kris had been under a "mistaken impression" regarding "the limits of the family's ability to pay," there would be no bill for the Hoopers. However, lest a dangerous precedent be set, the committee took pains to note: "Any doctor has the right to render a bill for his service...