Word: doctorings
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Thirteen-year-old Tucker McCrady didn't understand his first stage role. He was cast in Waiting for Lefty at his Sewannee, Tennessee school. Called on to play a Jewish doctor during the Depression who was being fired because of his religion, the young McCrady was confused, especially about why the doctor was fired. But after long rehersals with the director, McCrady could act the part without really understanding it. A few months later his school was set to perform the Mikado. But McCrady sat that one out: "It sounded Japanese, and I couldn't sing and didn't want...
Water polo, however, will not be a life priority for her. In the future, she sees herself "in California, as a doctor of obstetrics. But I'm not sure. They say you change your mind many times in medical school...
...University may consider a plan in the near future to provide its police officers with protective devices such as gloves to be used in situations where there is the possibility of the spread of AIDS, Harvard's chief doctor said yesterday...
...have been the most soulful commencement ceremony in Ivy League history. Moments after accepting an honorary doctor of music degree from the trustees of Brown University last week, Stevie Wonder, 37, stepped down from the dais and walked to a nearby terrace where an electric piano had been discreetly set up. Wonder noted that this was a special occasion for everyone and invited the audience of 2,000 graduates and 8,000 parents and guests to relax and take in the moment. Said he: "In the spirit of those who never had the opportunity to receive a degree...
...baseball team). His belief in ethical obligations underlay a major part of a commencement address he delivered earlier this month at Texas Lutheran College in Seguin, and he will return to the topic on May 24 at Hartwick College in Oneonta, N.Y., when he receives an honorary doctor of letters...