Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...California neurologists considered the possibility that J.S. was suffering from hysteria, but soon had to rule that out. Then they found that J.S. had "tunnel vision," i.e., he saw only a narrow field, as though he were looking through a tube. This still did not explain the case. Doctors found a small snapshot showing him as a World War II pilot: the face was clearly recognizable and small enough to be well within his tunneled view. But J.S. could not identify himself. Said one doctor: "He seemed to have no visual image of himself to compare with the photograph...
...Post (Venture to the Interior) has taken his theme from French Philosopher-Sociologist Lucien Levy-Bruhl: "Le reve est le vrai dieu des Primitifs [The dream is the real god of primitive peoples]." The Russians know that the far-flung Amangtak-wena tribe is expecting its chief witch doctor to have a "dream," i.e., to receive from the spirit world an oracular directive on tribal policy. Hunter-Hero Pierre de Beauvilliers suspects a sinister hand when a Negro clutching a flamingo feather (the summons to a dream powwow) is murdered. Pierre gets on the scent like a pointer, and soon...
...Doctor tells the story of how four young Englishmen (Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth More, Donald Sinden, Donald Houston) get through St. Swithin's medical school-or don't. The curriculum, it would appear, is little more than a course of jokes about medical students, and some of them are funnier to see than they ever were to hear...
...only real trouble with Doctor, in fact, is that the fun is almost too fast and furious. One minute somebody is dippy on ether fumes, the next he is nursing a stuffed gorilla in an ambulance; and before the audience can say cholecystelectrocoagulectomy, a flowerpot shatters on the dean's skull, and the hero crashes through a skylight into bed with-that's right-the head nurse herself...
...loan, by convincing him that he is an old acquaintance. He gulls a sympathetic gentleman with a billion-dollar worldwide relief scheme ("Missions I would quicken with the Wall Street spirit"). Ever extolling the power of positive thinking, the confidence-man takes the form of an herb doctor with a cure-all called the Omni-Balsamic Reinvigorator ("Health is good, and nature cannot work...