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...play, at Broadway's Imperial Theater, is not totally autobiographical. When we meet the hero, a writer named George Schneider (Judd Hirsch), he is a heartbroken shell of a man who sleepwalks around his living room poring over letters of condolence. The leftovers in his refrigerator are reinventing penicillin. His brother Leo (Cliff Gorman), a kind of compassionate Sammy Glick, feels that the cure for George's depression is to fix him up with a date-in Leo's mind a euphemism for an easy...
...Exarheia, youthful, bearded PASOK workers joyfully embraced as they heard the news about notable new Deputies who had won election: Actress Melina Mercouri (Never on Sunday), comfortably elected-to a seat representing the port of Piraeus-after an unsuccessful try in 1974; and Lady Amalia Fleming, widow of penicillin's discoverer, a bacteriologist and a political prisoner under the junta...
...When penicillin and other antibiotics were introduced more than a generation ago, doctors felt they had finally won the fight against the most common form of bacterial pneumonia. But the tiny spherical pneumococcus bacteria have proved a stubborn foe. They are showing increasing resistance to drugs of all kinds, and bacterial pneumonia is again on the rise; it takes an estimated 25,000 lives a year in the U.S. alone. The bacteria are also a common cause of damaging middle-ear infections in youngsters and meningitis?a dangerous inflammation of the membranes surrounding the brain and spinal cord...
SKEPTICISM, LIKE PENICILLIN, is in trouble these days. Certainty grows apace. A man in Detroit may momentarily capture national attention by telling the President that Panama, Taiwan, or loans to Eastern Europe mean nothing to him by comparison with getting a job. But the incident, while potentially photogenic, is soon forgotten, as civil rights are championed abroad and the gospel according to Jimmy is spooned out at home like so much codeine. Guaranteed to make you feel better...
Ebert offered examples of the varied directions of his own medical career. In the '40s he worked with Dr, Paul Flory, the scientist who won a Nobel prize for his work on penicillin. Ebert added that after World War II, he was stationed as a medical officer with the troops occupying Nagasaki, Japan after the atomic bomb was dropped there. "I learned first-hand of the horrors of war," he said...