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...only flaw in an otherwise perceptive, well-written editorial entitled "Defeating Doctors" (Feb. 21) is the paragraph down-grading the importance of organic chemistry and other introductory science courses in producing competent practising physicians. From my brief experience in medical school, I must admit that Harvard's notorious organic chemistry course helped me understand some of the mechanisms and basic principles of biochemistry. Biochemistry, in turn, is important because medical science is exploring with increasing success the processes of life and of disease on a molecular level. To know what lab tests to order, how to interpret their results...
...immaculately polite and sinister, whether ordering a libation or a liquidation. Pleasence's ambition is to run to ground an elusive agronomist portrayed by Vladek Sheybal, whose huge eyes pop out of his head like a couple of painted Ping Pong balls. Sheybal brings off a flaw less vocal impression of Peter Lorre, with the same slightly lisping tones that sound threatening and tubercular at the same time, as if he might run short of breath before he was through telling you to stick your hands...
...quickly trivialized into an exchange of bon mots. Neither Lenny nor Kelly has a heart to be broken, and that is precisely the problem. Cybill Shepherd in particular lacks the range of acting emotion necessary to sustain the human relationships at anything more than a superficial level; a serious flaw in the latter part of the film is her inability to warm up to the very man with whom she is supposedly in love. Her self-consciously coquettish treatment of everyone from the maid to her father is proof that her virtually identical performance in The Last Picture Show...
...about Medea is that it is an un-Greek tragedy in Aristotelian terms. Though Medea fell in love with Jason through the agency of the goddesses Hera and Aphrodite, the deities are conspicuously absent from the play as instruments of inevitability. The heroine does not fall through a fatal flaw, or die, and the catharsis of pity and terror is largely missing. Medea wreaks havoc on herself and those around her by fulfilling her own nature, that of being a creature of unbridled emotions. To Euripides and his Greek audience, the tragedy was probably regarded as that of all humankind...
...basic flaw in Greeley's arguments lies in his definition of religion as "an explanation of what the world is all about." This notion takes in ideology as well, so that under Greeley's definition. Marxism would be called a religion even though it disavows the notion of God. Yet Greeley explicitly rejects the arguments of liberals for a "God-less Christianity" a la Dietrich Bonhoffer. In the end, one has absorbed empirical data and a considerable body of theory all pointing to the persistence of theistic religion, only to discover that God is not really the focal point...