Word: psychiatrist
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Then Maurine began to lose interest in Capitol Hill. After marrying Dr. Philip Solomon, a Boston psychiatrist, in July 1964, she set up house in Newton Centre, Mass, (though maintaining a legal residence in Oregon). She spent more and more time in the East, paid less and less attention to her constituents, turned down many speaking engagements, and in the past two years, all but stopped visiting Oregon...
Worse, Belli's diagnosis was knocked down by his own star witness, Dr. Manfred Guttmacher, the veteran psychiatrist of Baltimore's criminal courts. Even though Guttmacher offered the far more plausible diagnosis of episodic psychosis, Belli refused to abandon his pet theory-which five prosecution medical witnesses then tore to shreds. Not surprisingly, one assistant prosecutor felt free to play the defense for laughs: "I wonder if they got their psychomotor variant from the psycho-motor pool...
...easy to see why she fascinates a daring young psychiatrist (John Cullum) who wants to frogleap Freud into the mental future. After all, she knows his phone is ringing before it rings, and she can grow plants faster than Jack's beanstalk by singing nicely to them. She sings nicely to the audience, too, especially in Burton Lane's best song, What Did I Have That I Don't Have?, a wistful identity query in which Daisy wonders why the good doctor dotes on her 18th century self. In other numbers, Lane's score improves Lerner...
...problem: Can a psychiatrist father who is writing a book about the problems of teen-agers cope maturely with his own young hell-kittens? The resolution...
Alan King, one of the pooh-bahs of show biz, plays the psychiatrist with two alternating expressions. He pops his eyes like the late Benito Mussolini, and he breaks into a slow-burn grin like a pregnant volcano. This gives him wice the comic range of the play...