Word: marcuses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after Oakland, Calif., School Superintendent Marcus Foster was gunned down on the street in November 1973, a newspaper and local radio station received notes from something enigmatically called the Symbionese Liberation Army, which claimed credit for the killing. The S.L. A. blamed Foster, an imaginative and progressive black educator, for trying to establish what it called a repressive security system in the Oakland schools...
...back at Universal months later, on the strength of a student film that had caught the eye of one of the executives. For the next four years, Spielberg directed television: episodes of Marcus Welby, Columbo, The Psychiatrist and a Movie of the Week called Duel, which amply demonstrated his talents. A chilling little tale of a motorist pursued through the Southwest by a semi whose driver is never seen, Duel got Spielberg his first feature, The Sugarland Express. It was a movie with the sort of brio and elaborate technical command that made Spielberg, in the producers' view, just...
...much better informed than it used to be, and it no longer regards a doctor's views as law. But part of the public's knowledge consists of reports of miracle drugs and surgical spectaculars like heart transplants. People also enjoy the television programs that show Marcus Welby and his colleagues regularly triumphing over death and disease. Since they now expect more from doctors, they are less willing to accept bad results and far more willing to blame them on a physician's failure. "People do not understand that everything is not going to result...
...Goodbye, Marcus Welby...
...time for the man on the street to stop thinking of all doctors, dentists and medical people as Marcus Welby. True, some are, but the vast majority are looking out for their own self-interests, salaries and fees-as exemplified by the recent doctors' strike [March...