Word: doctor
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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After a few samples of the wonders of hypnotism we are ready for the feature. "Imagine yourself in London," intones the kindly doctor. "You are in London, you are in London, you are in London...
...President, he received a monthly salary of $700, but much of it went to treat a pair of heart attacks and a stroke that left his left side paralyzed. When his salary, his savings and his term ran out, a friendly doctor treated him free. "I took massage and special exercises," says Cafe Filho. "I forced my muscles to move again." In 1956 Brazil's Varig airline flew him to the U.S. free for treatment by Heart Specialist Paul Dudley White...
Anyone who found the first 75 pages of Doctor Zhivago heavy going will find The Last Summer no easier. It is told in the same crosscutting flashbacks, as if unrelated strips of film were spliced together to achieve a unity of mood rather than magic. The time is 1916, and Russia is in the midst of war. The hero, Serezha, has come to visit his sister, and soon falls asleep. In a kind of Proustian reverie, he sleepwalks through events of the past-particularly through the fatefully serene prewar summer of 1914, which the young Pasternak nostalgically calls "that last...
...more powerful than either: writing. In a scene of almost comic Victorian romanticism, complete with smelling salts and kneeling suitor, Anna Arild rejects Serezha, and the young writer is free to pursue the hard mastery of his craft. Boris Pasternak himself did not attain that mastery until he wrote Doctor Zhivago. Despite its vivid imagery, lyricism and passion for the individual. The Last Summer is an apprentice work...
...Sellers FICTION 1. Advise and Consent, Drury (2)* 2. Exodus, Uris (1) 3. The Ugly American, Lederer and Burdick (4) 4. Lady Chatterley's Lover, Lawrence (3) 5. The Cave, Warren (6) 6. Dear and Glorious Physician, Caldwell (5) 7. The Art of Llewellyn Jones, Bonner (10) 8. Doctor Zhivago, Pasternak (8) 9. The Tender Shoot, Colette 10. The Lotus Eaters, Green...