Word: knocks
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Knock, Jules Romains' astringent comedy on the triumph of medicine over the modern mind, received a barely lukewarm performance at the play's opening Tuesday night in the Tufts' Arena...
...Knock, who exchanges his practice in Lyons for that of Dr. Parpalaid in the village of St. Maurice, quickly finds that not only are his patients virtually non-existent, but also that the few he possesses have already paid their bills (which they do annually) to his predecessor. By a series of "free" consultations and by engaging the support of influential citizens, however, Knock buffaloes the rural characters with a bewildering description of their maladies. No one escapes the cryptic medical language and anatomical charts which the doctor employs to convince the strapping citizens of their multiple ills...
Then Parpalaid, disillusioned with city life, returns only to find his favorite hangout, the village hotel, now turned into a bustling hospital. Parpalaid begs Knock to reveal his secret, which is what the charlatan terms the "science of medicine." Romains is deadly serious in his concern with modern man's susceptibility to pseudo-scientific worship, and Knock's final manipulations of Parpalaid result in an ironic and completely unsentimental ending...
Next week the Tufts Arena will present Jules Romains' renowned comedy Doctor Knock, which deals with the "triumph of medicine" among gullible moderns. Director Marston Balch has recently fashioned his own English translation...
...District of Columbia upheld the right of Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to deny passports to Artist Rockwell Kent and Los Angeles Psychiatrist Walter Briehl for refusing to sign non-Communist affidavits. Then four of the judges, putting chips on their shoulders for the Supreme Court to knock off with a Jencks-type ruling, went on to say that confidential Government information can remain confidential in matters of national security and foreign affairs, e.g., in passport cases...