Word: doctoring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Tracy plays a liberal newspaper editor who comes home one afternoon to find his daughter (Katharine Houghton) engaged to a too-too successful doctor (Sidney Poitier) who, in the jargon of the early 60's, "happens to be a Negro." Of course the liberal editor turns out to have trouble practicing what he preaches, whereon the plot of the movie is hinged. William Rose's screenplay offers humor (the girl's parents' reaction on meeting Poitier; his parents' reaction on meeting Miss Houghton), suspense (who will talk to whom in which room next?), and incisive social commentary (we are brothers...
Properly registered he will receive a small laminated card to be carried like a driver's license. The card allows a doctor to remove legally the person's organs within minutes after death. For the transplant of kidneys, livers, and hearts, this "quick-time" is essential...
There will be several cases where the new law won't apply. If the laminated card is lost, if the patient develops cancer or becomes too old, the doctor can't operate...
...logotherapy the patient sits facing his doctor, who, unlike the classical analyst, may do much of the talking. Dr. Frankl is only half jesting when he says that the patient "must hear things that sometimes are very disagreeable to hear." It is virtually impossible in any, language to describe the process of helping a patient to find meaning or new meaning in his life. Not only does it vary from patient to patient, but in many cases Dr. Frankl, guided by his own intuition, improvises changes in method as he goes along...
...attractions is Albert's father. Sol Abrams is an aging doctor, bitter, brilliant, physically powerful, with a face like a Cherokee's-in fact, line for line the same corrosive old Olympian who dominated The Last Angry Man. It is a pleasure to hear him roar at the world again, even if the neighborhood has gone downhill and even if he knocks Green's memoir slightly out of shape...