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...leading females are also very capable. Although Maggie Brenner, who plays Peer's mother, Aase, moves too gingerly for an old woman in the opening scene, her death scene is one of the play's high points. As Solveig. Eden Murray's grace and warmth generate the impression of an innocent maiden, and her fine voice enhances her sensitive characterization...
Though Hersey himself does not render the verdict, his meticulous accounting supports the impression of other President watchers: the Ford White House, for all its genuine warmth, ease and candor, is somehow lacking in ideas and depth. Ford emerges as a decent caretaker, bent on restoration but not renovation of a fine house that had lately fallen into bad hands...
...during his years there, appears as an unpleasant caricature-by no coincidence closely resembling her ex-husband's caricature of the engulfing Thurber Woman. Second Wife Helen Thurber, who shared his life through his years of dimming eyesight and blindness (and who did the authorizing) is treated with warmth. Clearly she deserves it, but the disparity between the two portraits nevertheless smacks of the dreary side-taking that follows any suburban divorce...
...There is also cruelty in Beckett's method (Mercier is comforted briefly by the sight of a dead and bleeding wom an) and surprising moments of compassion. When Mercier and Camier part, they lose the small comforts of their mutual buffoonery - supporting hands and shoulders, conversational noise, animal warmth. That loss, as the book ends, is no laughing matter...
Despite these discoveries, Healing is not an angry book. For one thing, Nolen recognizes that it is often doctors themselves who drive patients to the healers: "Some healers offer patients more warmth and compassion than physicians do." More important, Nolen acknowledges that, in some cases, the healers actually heal. Faith healers can and often do cure psychosomatic ailments. But they cannot cure organic illnesses. The problem is that the psychics as well as their patients frequently do not know the difference. Doctors do, or at least should. ∙Peter Stoler