Word: doctorate
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...When the Patient Is Sick." By the time the Council reconvened, the British had landed in Jordan. Taking the offensive, Lodge endorsed the British decision, went on to regret the Swedish position. "When the patient is sick," he said, "is no time for the doctor to leave." He insisted that the U.N. observers had not been able to get behind all the rebel lines, cited U.S. evidence of infiltration, added that the shrill incitements of Cairo newspapers and radio alone constituted interference. "Is the United Nations to condone indirect aggression in plain clothes from outside a country?" If it cannot...
...doctor's job was keeping the children healthy with balanced diets and three checkups a week. The father was their stout shield against excessive publicity. He tried to hide the quints' birth by registering them separately, and when the secret got out, he turned away reporters with short answers: "They are just children. Go find yourself a road show...
Days Without Weather. Horner, just turned 28, has suffered a paralyzing case of "birthday despondency." A sinister Negro doctor brings him out of it. In describing the doctor's manifold therapies, Novelist Barth shows a true satirist's hatred for all the quackery visited by blind belief in the healing powers of science upon muddled, addled and wicked souls...
...doctor's methods include the Nutritional, Dynamic, Informational, Sexual, Devotional, Preoccupational, Virtue and Vice Therapies, not to mention Theotherapy and Atheotherapy. This genius-quack, "a kind of super-pragmatist," tells Patient Horner: "It would not be well in your case to believe in God. Religion will only make you despondent. But until we work out something for you it will be useful to subscribe to some philosophy. Why don't you read Sartre and become an existentialist? . . . Study the World Almanac: it is to be your breviary for a while...
...failure of that fallible device leads to a nightmare of abortion in which Horner's doctor is revealed as the evil destroyer of life, spirit and flesh. Existentialism and pragmatism have had it at the hands of a calculating crank...