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...Perlman's Ordeal (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 329 pages; $24), novelist Brooks Hansen has some serious fun imagining the case of Sylvie Blum, a.k.a. Nina, the pubescent bringer of confusion and disarray into the physician's otherwise detached and antiseptic existence. As a hypnotherapist, Perlman is a hands-off healer. As a closet onanist, he is a hands-on pioneer of safe...
...doctor's true passion is listening to classical music, preferably that composed by the great melodists of the 19th century. The literary equivalent of melody is, of course, story, the engaging what-next of narrative prose. Hansen's tersely told tale hangs expectantly on the outcome of Mistress Blum's treatment, which unexpectedly includes the arcane input of the enchanting Madame Helena Barrett and her spiritualist friends...
...Telephone surveys in matters of sexuality and matters of race are uniformly skewed," Blum said. "People respond to a race question much differently over the telephone than they do in private...
...Blum said the question on admissions policies should have been more pointed...
...that had been asked," Blum said, "then I think the vast majority of law students would say that standards must be applied uniformly and evenly between the races and men and women...