Word: doctoral
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...control (only 18 states and the District of Columbia regulate degree giving). In one of 13 states that tolerate "nonprofit" colleges without a charter or license, the typical mill's campus is a small-town post-office box. For $150 and up, the mill sells such degrees as Doctor of Divinity in Metaphysics, Doctor of Naturopathic Medicine, "Master Herbalsits" (sic). The signatories are such lustrous personages as "Archbishop John...
...great "B.B." had been failing for more than a year. Visitors to his exquisite villa near Florence reported that he seemed curled up on himself, listless, sere, like an autumn leaf in the boisterous wind of death. Last week Berenson's surviving sister, his doctor and his longtime companion, Nicky Mariano, were at the bedside, trying to ease the ancient connoisseur through a painful throat infection. Smoothing his pillow, Nicky asked if Berenson was all right. Unable to reply, Berenson nodded and drifted off to sleep, and death...
...climate of horror develops soon enough. There are unearthly night noises, a ghostly hand scrawls HELP ELEANOR COME HOME, and some force or creature smears blood (or is it red paint?) over the clothes of another of the doctor's girl assistants. Eleanor begins to crack soon enough; her whole personality begins to disintegrate, and fantasy takes over from reality. She awakens at night to the call of her dead mother. All too soon it becomes obvious that Mama is the real couch-history villain and that Eleanor never really had a chance...
...Doctor Zhivago has already shown, the sense of life in Pasternak is heightened by the flashing vigor of his imagery; sometimes he welds disparate images to startle the reader into a rebirth of wonder. At the first patter of a summer drizzle, "dust swallowed up the pills of raindrops." In an offshore storm, "skies crouch lower/ Flying downward/ Steep/ Sea slopes/ And finger the deep/ With wings of clamorous gulls...
...Desilu Playhouse (CBS, 9-10 p.m.). With some TV sheriffs it's conscience that forbids pulling a gun; with Lloyd Nolan it's arthritis. In Six Guns for Donegan, Nolan plays Sheriff Darrow, whose reputation might have been salvaged more easily by a visit to the town doctor...