Word: physicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alas, the empire collapsed when one of the alleged ringleaders, Shaya Shakerman, a widowed physician, began making overtures to the wife of a relative, and the latter told all to the secret police. To many Westerners, the resulting arrests had an anti-Semitic ring, for Jewish names were clearly involved. Protested Izvestia: "It is not Jews, Russians, Tartars or Ukrainians who will stand trial. 'Criminals will stand trial." In the courtroom last week, Roifman, Shakerman and three others-two members of the economic police and a men's wear factory official -were sentenced to be shot, their accomplices...
...with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying out in their country. They accused the doctors of having fallen into the clutches of Moral ReArmament, argued that morals are not the province of physicians or priests but of psychiatrists. Indeed, Moral ReArmament may have been an indirect influence behind the morality petition; two doctors in a Stockholm clinic who helped initiate it are supporters of the movement. But, said one physician, "Things are pretty bad, and it does not matter who says...
...eyes of the British, eccentricity often looks like genius. In his own time (1731-1802), Erasmus Darwin, grandfather of Charles, was renowned not only as Britain's foremost physician but as a poet, scientist, inventor and conversationalist of formidable talent. He had, said Coleridge, "a greater range of knowledge than any other man in Europe," and King George III begged him to come to London as the royal physician (he refused, on the ground that he preferred to remain in Lichfield). The age's other great eccentric, Samuel Johnson, dismissed him as a provincial from an "intellectually barren...
...Baylor University he met Nancy Aynesworth, daughter of a prominent Waco, Texas, physician. They were married in 1933 during Mann's senior year at Baylor Law School and went to Laredo, where Tom went into practice with his father and brothers for $100 a month. Then came Pearl Harbor, and Tom drove 150 miles to Corpus Christi to join the Navy. When he took his physical exam, he found he couldn't even read the largest E on the eye chart. "I had read so much in preparing those appellate cases," he says, "that I had a muscle...
...just about everyone is urging them to be. As respectable an authority as Robert C. Dodds, a minister in the United Church of Christ, and General Director of Planning for the National Council of Churches, appends a chapter on sex practices to a marriage handbook, in which a physician urges couples to explore and "conjure up various positions and actions of sexual intercourse." Old taboos are slowly beginning to disappear, and while the upper and educated classes were always more adventurous in their techniques, sexual class lines show signs of fading. Reportedly declining are such prudish practices as making love...