Word: novaks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Narrow as an arrow but fetching as an etching, Geraldine Chaplin, 20, Charlie's unmatched little girl, paired herself off with British Actor Richard Johnson, 36, for a romp about Chilham Castle in England, where Johnson is playing Kim Novak's leading man in Paramount's production of The Amorous Adventures of Moll Flanders. "I think he's the most marvelous man," Geraldine rejoiced. "We're very fond of each other-it's obvious, isn't it?" Johnson responded. But, he added, there is "no question of an engagement-at least at this...
Like any conscientious husband and father, Thomas Novak, 29, wanted to do what he could to protect his family's security. His Detroit medical practice was growing steadily, and he applied for a $50,000 life-insurance policy...
...perfectly usual thing for a doctor to do, but lean, intense Novak was no usual doctor. A 1953 graduate of Detroit's Chadsey High School, Novak had attended an impressive list of universities-Michigan, Johns Hopkins, and Wayne State University College of Medicine. Yet he had never bothered to enroll or take examinations at any of them; he had simply bought medical books and audited lectures. At Wayne he even outfitted himself with a white surgical gown so he could attend operations along with other medical students. But everywhere he went his habit was to listen, learn, leave...
...feeling himself prepared at last to practice, Novak traded a land contract worth $15,000 for the practice of a retiring doctor. Specializing in internal medicine, he built up a practice that brought in as many as 40 patients a day, wrote an average of 20 prescriptions a day, and quickly won a reputation as a good doctor. When asked about the absence of diplomas on his wall, he said that they were at home. He seldom mingled with colleagues or went to medical meetings lest his masquerade be discovered. His nurse, the wife of a prominent Detroit physician, described...
...parish life, renewal means a comprehensible liturgy with parishioner participation instead of novenas, family study groups instead of membership in the Holy Name Society (an organization formed in part to cut down profanity). It means the displacement of what Layman Michael Novak calls "nonhistorical orthodoxy"-the abstract, rationalistic theology that has dominated Catholic thinking since the Council of Trent-by a Gospel-centered Catholicism that is open to accept the insights of Freud, Camus, and even Marx...