Word: patiently
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...President will finally enter a hospital for treatment of his thrombophlebitis. Dr. Walter Tkach, of course, is the former White House physician who two weeks ago, on a flying trip to California, had no luck at all in persuading Nixon to go into a hospital. Tkach even quoted his patient as saying that he feared he would die if he did so. "Dr." Miller, of course, is Nixon's lawyer, Jack Miller, who knows that health grounds could possibly help Nixon escape taking the stand as a witness in upcoming trials...
...THERE is no reason abortion should be a political issue. Other medical procedures that are as simple and safe as abortion are not legislated, except as far as is necessary to protect the patient's health. Decisions to have or not to have any operation are always personal decisions that the state does not regulate; logically, there is no reason why abortion should be treated differently. That some people believe it to be morally wrong does not make the decision to have an abortion any less of a personal issue...
...although the Patient may be Shaw's favorite character, she is not the most admirable. That position must be awarded to Private Meek, a character modeled on Shaw's great friend, Lawrence of Arabia, and the only character who seems to have any control over his surroundings. While those around him speechify and sermonize, he runs the army outpost with superhuman efficiency and good nature. His totally incompetent commanding officer pays him what sounds like Shaw's ultimate compliment: "I see this man Meek doing everything that is natural to a complete man." Meek has found what the Patient...
...while the audience is left with the despairing words of Aubrey ringing dolefully in their ears, the reader is reminded, in these closing sentences, of the Patient's cheerful determination to find "something sensible to do." She has learned, during the course of her dream, that responsibility and not freedom is the key to "real life," and, having shaken off the shackles of Victorian femininity, she sets off in equal partnership with her mother to found a "sisterhood...
...buried it in his final "stage direction," a postscript to "the reader" in which Shaw reveals that his own favorite character is not the preacher, who continues to preach despite his loss of faith, and who is the character most likely to be identified with Shaw, but rather the patient--"the woman of action...