Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Talcott Parsons, professor of Sociology, will deliver the first of two lectures on "The Doctor-Patient Relationship," to be presented Feb. 3 and 10 at 5 p.m. in the ampitheatre of Building D at the Medical School...
...suffer with greater subtlety and complexity, and no less intensity, than the clods out of which modern plays are frequently heaped up. Thomas' words sometimes cast a glow, a light never seen on land or sea, even on the murderers (though never on the murders); but it is Doctor Rock's reaction, in the scene where before a phantom audience he lectures on the dissection of the human conscience, that proves that melodrama can be used for purposes of poetry...
Some day, perhaps, there will be a great production of The Doctor and the Devils, one that will make the most of its beauties, since not much can be done to minimize its faults. It would be interesting to see what Frederic March or Sir John Gielgud could do with the leading role; any lesser actor would be over-parted. Robert A. Brooks, who takes the part at Kresge, has the proper dignity of bearing, and makes a noble stage figure. If he is insufficiently heroic, if he does not project the proper intensity of fanaticism...
...Doctor and the Devils was written as a movie script; the story is told in one hundred and forty-one scenes in the printed text, some lasting only a moment. Thomas sent his hypothetical cameraman up and down the streets of a whole city; Joseph Everingham, the adapter, Stephen Aaron, the director, and Webster Lithgow, the designer, have had to cram all this onto the double stage at Kresge. They have wisely stuck close to Thomas' original, and, having attempted the impossible, brought it off better than might have been expected...
...Aaron's slum scenes, while effective, have an air of deja vu about them, and, at least at the dress rehearsal Lattended, the murders were sadly disappointing. More work may have been done on the show since then, but The Doctor and the Devils would be out of place on the stage even in the best of circumstances. It is a movie script. Its dozens of locales need dozens of settings; its fades and cuts and dissolves must be quicker and cleaner than the be-tiptoed blackouts that are necessary in the theatre. Much of the work's quality...