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Once again a novel's scalpel (TIME, Oct. 12, 1959) has been dulled, a dramatization has too much settled for mere drama. It is not simply that ethics have been a bit smothered in theatrics - though the production seems often needlessly stagy; it is equally that the edges have half obscured the center. For the colorful secondary characters to keep their full size, the chief ones - the monsignor and Nerone - must dwindle; indeed the meant-to-be Christlike Nerone never really takes shape...
Under the Scalpel. Edge is the kind of program that TV critics automatically ignore, but it reveals more about U.S. TV-and is hardly worse-than what currently passes for serious video drama. With plots more intricately involuted than anything in Dickens or Trollope. and with up to two dozen actors enmeshed in a plot spread over eight months to a year, the live, half-hour show in effect presents an annual play in 250 acts. In outline, the soaper as reborn on TV is not too different from the old radio formula, but video has added a whole...
...little Laurie Ann. the Karrs' tot, was suffering from a hitherto unknown disease called paranucleosis, and couid be snatched from death only by miracle brain surgery. Alas, the master surgeon had hung up his trephining kit; his nerves had been shattered since his own daughter died under his scalpel...
...this patchy, fast-paced comic novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community...
...specialties there are similar complaints of Balkanization. Pathologists, shut off in their laboratories studying specimens from patients they never see, resent the radiologists' monopoly of tracer studies done with radioactive isotopes. Plastic surgeons, whose practice is supposed to be little more than skin-deep, can hardly lift the scalpel without trespassing. Said one: "Every operation in my field crosses other specialties' borderlines." But it works both ways: the plastic men complain that ear-nose-throat specialists are too willing to bob noses...