Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production at the Little Opera House, on a two-week furlough from off-Broadway, is powerfully effected. The full plight of a doctor who discovers the town's health baths to be polluted, is relentlessly revealed in successive episodes from the time his brother, the mayor, first suggests that he is a "traitor to society." At the end of the second act a tremendous and truly exciting feeling of futility engulfs the viewer as the doctor attempts to explain the danger and his own remedial plan to a mass meeting where his audience is stacked against him. Agitators...
...audience realizes from the first the inevitable outcome of the action, if not from the title itself, then from the basis of the doctor's optimism--the liberal press and the "middle-class majority." Hovstad as the curly-haired 20th century editor is at his best when his true yellow colors are flying; his bourgeois publisher, superbly acted by Al Sperduto, epitomizes the egoistic middle-class man of moderation. The result of the audience's foreknowledge of failure is a tremendous irony that fills the play and nearly offsets its didacticism...
Miller's adaption is admirable but not wholly successful. There often remains a curious juxtaposition of colloquial speech and elevated pronouncement, as when the doctor tells the mayor, "Don't jump on me with that," and then adds, "The trouble with you is that your impressions are blunted...
Earl Montgomery, as Doctor Stockmann, has much of the bearing of a "matinee idol," and appears much younger than his wife, admirably portrayed by Lois Holmes. Art Smith, as Morton Kiil, presents a striking portrait of her shrewd and disreputable father. Gene Frankel's direction is adept and certain touches are superb. Yet with the children, who add more distraction than depth, his direction is spotty and they generally dash onstage with a gust, then settle into the shadows to await their lines...
...rule against team projects was the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, a large undertaking leading to three books so far--How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes, by Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles and Clyde Kluckhohn, the Berliner volume, and Mark G. Field's Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia--and numerous articles. In this study, carried on in co-operation with the United States Air Force, a team of twenty interviewers spent nearly a year in Munich collecting material from former Soviet citizens who had fled the U.S.S.R. The results were processed and studied...