Word: oculist
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...same spirit as when you give someone a nickname behind his back or mentally undress a speaker behind a lectern, you fill the room with all the people you think should stop whatever they're doing now and take a turn as Greek vases-your dentist and your oculist, the Nixons and their kith, especially David Eisenhower, everyone from your Freshman Seminar on The Psychoanalytic View Of Man, the CIA, the CRR, and one of your great-aunts, Howard Hughes and Hugh Heffner, all the women who sleep with Henry Kissinger or pose for vaginal docodorant ads, and finally, every...
...first time) that he is retiring. Other Democrats in the race include Segregationist State Supreme Court Justice Jim Johnson, 41, and Businessman Winston Chandler, 46. However, Hays's chief rival for the nomination is expected to be the man who ousted him from Congress, Little Rock Oculist Dale Alford, 50, who has yet to announce. The Democratic nominee will face Arkansas' Mr. Republican, Millionaire Rancher Winthrop Rockefeller, brother of New York's Governor Nelson. Winthrop won 44% of the vote in 1964, is given an even chance of winning this year...
...sharp, funny one-act play, written by Slawomir Mrozek and translated from Polish, Charlie deals with three characters and one problem. The characters are an oculist of rather flexible moral convictions (Paul Benedict), an old man with a loaded gun and bad vision (Edward Finnegan), and his solicitous, direct grandson (Richard Shepard). These last two are country people, and they see the problem as a simple one: Grandpa wishes to kill something named "Charlie"; he needs some glasses to recognize him. The doctor has difficulty understanding, though...
...PRESIDENT KENNEDY. "I asked my oculist if Kennedy was always covering his eyes to protect himself from flashbulbs, but my oculist said he thought Kennedy was probably just bored. Your President is very young and looks charming...
With a Price List. All of this could be classified as oldfashioned, aggressive journalism until the Pope's physician, Professor Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi-the same who offered the photos of papal calisthenics-entered the story. A mild-mannered oculist, Dr. Galeazzi-Lisi first met the Pope when he was still Eugenio Pacelli, the Vatican's 54-year-old Secretary of State, suffering from eye-strain headaches, which Galeazzi-Lisi relieved. When Pacelli was made Pope, he appointed his friend Galeazzi-Lisi as archiater,* or papal physician...