Word: patient
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...concerned colleague and friend Dr. Watson decides Holmes must be cured of his addiction. Using Moriarty as bait, he lures Holmes to the house of a Viennese doctor who has become notable through his success in curing patients of drug addiction. There, Sherlock Holmes and his historical contemporary Sigmund Freud, the world's two greatest investigative minds, join forces to unravel a mystery. While undergoing treatment for his addiction, Holmes pursues the case of Freud's beautiful ex-patient Lola Devereaux (who has been abducted). Freud, meanwhile, seeks to explain the enigma of Sherlock Holmes himself...
...worth seeing. The Milk Train Doesn 't Stop Here Any More was not a completely negligible drama on its first New York showing in 1963, but its doctored version one year later was comatose. Now Williams has given Summer and Smoke a kind of coronary bypass, but the patient looks pale...
Like a play within a play, any production of this work turns on the final understanding between Petruchio and his tamed shrew. She may finish by agreeing with her husband that a woman's duty is to be a "most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife." Call this a medieval Kate. Or, having been frozen, starved and exhausted by her dauntless husband, she may cry out like a trapped and beaten Kate. In recent years she has been played as an ironic Kate, addressing her last speech, on the submission of wives, directly to the audience as a private joke...
...take some action next spring, which is more or less the timetable I advised. But I do think the Middle East should be given priority. We have been delayed twice already-once by Watergate and again by the American elections. I think we have shown that we are patient, but this problem should not be unduly delayed...
Raymond D. Adams, Bullard Professor of Neuropathology, said yesterday a flat EEG reading is "a very bad prognosis if the patient is in a coma as a result of cardiac arrest or suffocation...