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Word: doctorate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mother; Loujean dashed in from the next bedroom. The stranger wheeled, flicked a knife; Loujean staggered to her bed with wounds in breast and abdomen. Slight (5 ft. 7 in.), Dr. Nimer leaped at the assailant, wrestled the man down the stairs, into the kitchen. Beside a telephone the doctor collapsed with chest and abdomen ripped...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FAMILIES: Intruder in the Night | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...DOCTOR ZHIVAGO (558 pp.)-Boris Pasternak-Pantheon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocence in Russia | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Thus the U.S.S.R.'s Boris Pasternak, who once described himself as "almost an atheist," seems to summon his readers to stand-not before the official Communist deity, which is a thing called history-but before the divinity of Jesus. This helps to explain why Doctor Zhivago, the greatest Russian novel since the Revolution, will not be read in Russia. The poem is attributed to the novel's hero, who supposedly leaves it with a sheaf of other verse as his legacy, but it plainly speaks for Pasternak and his gentle genius...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Innocence in Russia | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

Before long, among the Moslems of Kasba Mechta who had paid for their failure to help the rebels, Olivier Dubos was a familiar figure. He acted as welfare officer, schoolteacher and doctor rolled into one. made a point of showing up in remote villages on market days, alone and unarmed. "In the cause of pacification we have got to take risks." he said...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Lieutenant in Algeria | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

...pregnant woman crosses her legs, she will strangle her child with the umbilical cord. His one believer is an unwed pregnant farm girl, played (except at the birth, when the camera focuses on an anonymous mother) with translucent charm by Nicole Courcel, whose pain-free delivery provides the doctor with his triumph and the film with its spectacular ending. Thus it becomes a warm, witty, wise movie that is capable of making its point even to viewers who reject its message...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: The New Pictures, Sep. 1, 1958 | 9/1/1958 | See Source »

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