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Point of Desperation. Many factors beside the quantities of food and fats consumed are important in regulating the body's cholesterol level. So Dr. Master deplores overemphasis on diet. "We have encountered people who have deprived themselves of foods they crave, almost to the point of desperation," report Dr. Master and his colleague, Dr. Harry L. Jaffe. To avoid this situation, and to help their patients achieve "philosophical equanimity," they encourage people to relax and enjoy moderate amounts of butter and cream, meat and eggs. This is no different from Grandma's injunction to eat "everything in moderation...
Tough, able Sergeant Riglioni, himself only fitfully rational, blurredly watches the breakup. It takes the form of a mania for light. At night, huddled sleeplessly in bomb-crushed cellars, the men crave candles. They try scraping wax from ration boxes, but the lights they make burn only for seconds. Then a replacement shows up, squeamish in combat but eerily skillful at finding large quantities of wax. He guards his secret, but the obsessed men find it out: the wax comes from holy figures in household shrines and churches...
...some respects, Evtushenko and his followers resemble U.S. beatniks. But where U.S. beats glorify unwashedness, shook-up Soviet youth flaunts foppish clothes as the badge of their individualism. Russian youths crave the varied and permissive life that would be their birthright in the West. One of the most revealing, wistful expressions of Russian claustrophobia is a poem written by Evtu-shenko...
...Munich's Briennerstrasse, the wealthy West German can buy anything from culture to divorce, a mink to a Mercedes. Yet many new-rich businessmen crave a far more elusive commodity-Weltstellung, or status in the world. At 12 Briennerstrasse, even this...
Truce, our reader, a parley now we crave...