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...state of mutual contempt exists between the subversive team of Ivan-Kavalerov and the living symbols of the new order, Andrei Babichev and his protege Volodia. Babichev is Ivan's brother, a revolutionary who has been rewarded with the directorship of the Food Industry Trust. He is a glutton whose finest efforts go into the creation of a salami so good, so cheap, so nutritious that it will win at an international exposition. His idea ot a conversational gambit is: "Do you like olives?" Human Machine. But Babichev is not all bad. He has taken Kavalerov into his house...
...examined or treated nearly 1,000 male homosexuals. From this long and intimate professional voyage into a strange world, he has put down some surprising conclusions in a book, published last week, titled 1,000 Homosexuals (Pageant Books; $4.95). Says Psychoanalyst Bergler: ¶ The homosexual is a glutton for punishment and is surely unhappy-consciously or unconsciously...
...rambling, Victorian house, with cracked swimming pool, in London's Blackheath district. But the exuberant pictures of the disorderly, newspaper-strewn interiors and the sunflower-choked garden (often with the face of a Bratby child peering through the stalks) show that Bratby is still a glutton for life...
...Glutton." Praise of this magnitude is precisely what a grimly determined woman set out to achieve two centuries ago. When Catherine the Great (1729-96), born a German princess, came to Russia in 1744 to marry Grand Duke Peter (later Peter III), she found the nucleus of an imperial art collection started by Peter the Great, her husband's grandfather. After Catherine had forced her way to the throne in 1762, she sent fast-spending agents throughout Europe to send back wagonloads of just about anything on canvas that was for sale. "I am,'' she said...
Mother & Son. Stress is ever present everywhere, according to Selye. He sees it in "the soldier who sustains wounds in battle, the mother who worries about her soldier son, the gambler who watches the races . . . the beggar who suffers from hunger and the glutton who overeats . . . the child who scalds himself-and especially the particular cells of the skin over which he spilled the boiling coffee." So far it would seem that Dr. Selye has discovered only the obvious. But then he takes a bold, imaginative leap: "To understand the mechanism of stress gives physicians a new approach...