Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Washington to plug for a $50 million-a-year international medical-research bill (see MEDICINE), spry Boston Heart Specialist Dr. Paul Dudley White, 72, enchanted a Senate committee with a stethoscopic tour of Biblical history. "Heart disease," he said, "probably killed Adam." "I thought original sin killed Adam, Doctor," murmured Alabama's Lister Hill. White: "I believe that heart disease is our fault and not 'God's will.' " But what about Eve? asked West Virginia's Jennings Randolph. "Eve escaped," said White, warming to the topic. "Ladies have a great advantage with respect to coronary...
Among several case histories, Dr. Bontzolakis described a man of 57 who complained of dizziness, headaches and leg cramps. He had an enlarged heart with irregular beat, blood pressure of 250/130. Within six weeks, on reserpine, he improved (no headaches, less dizziness) and gave up abstractionism for expressionism. The doctor pushed the treatment: the heartbeat became regular, blood pressure dropped to 160/100, and the leg pain got better. The patient switched again-to primitivism. Dr. Bontzolakis was delighted. But two years later the man returned in worse shape than before, with blood pressure up again. What had happened...
...Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The book that renews all who read it and condemns those who banned...
FICTION 1. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak...
When Chance decides to lend Macgrady his passport (Macgrady's own is held by the syndicate) for a trip to London for medical help, the doctor and Anna are held as hostages. Not since Faulkner's Temple Drake was held captive in a Memphis brothel has a novelist contrived such powerful scenes of terror. While the key gangster gives Chance a going over, the Arabs begin to riot in the town. Buildings are bombed, the gangster's house is attacked by the mob; and while Chance fights his love for Anna and takes his physical beating...