Word: helplessly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...dramatic changes in the practice of medicine during Thomas's lifetime are the focus of the book. When his father, also a doctor, practiced medicine in the early 1900s, few doctors profitted financially and most felt helpless because they couldn't cure patients. Medical schools focused on diagnosis, the art--and as Thomas describes it, it was an art--of determining an ailment from a few external symptoms. They learned how to recognize illnesses without being able to treat them...
When I decide to listen to him and ask myself the questions that he asks himself and us. I feel terrified by my own helplessness and confusion about my life. Who needs to feel helpless and confused? So often I find it easier to close myself off by criticizing him and thereby not to hear him and not to have to ask questions...
...opening scene at Heathrow Airport, his dual isolation in subtly apparent. When dealing with the vaguely threatening customs officials, he is like an intense, caged animal: when dealing with his helpless companions, he is like a slightly arrogant animal trainer. His comment about the British--"I can speak their language--this is why the Boss sent me--but I don't know what they really mean"--equally applies to his relationship with the workers. As they first enter the empty house. Nowak slowly sets up his own order: "I made it clear to them, no smoking. I hate the smell...
Moonlighting is not only intense and austere, but also consistently gripping and moving a vision of the breakdown and isolation of one individual in the larger context of today's political breakdown. The movie is also helpless, because its context never overwhelms the content, and politics remains secondary to personal concerns...
...Pisar sees the greatest danger in the world in the economic dislocation that is sweeping the world. "Hitler was a progeny of unemployment and inflation, social unrest, and helpless politicians who could not cope." "Pisar observes, adding. "This is the stuff of which untold Holocausts are made...