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...ADOLESCENT by Fyodor Dosfoevsky. A new translation by Andrew R. MacAndrew. 585 pages. Doubleday...
Undeniably, the traditional translation by Constance Garnett (done in 1916) had a quality of oak paneling and stained-glass windows (not to say cobwebs), and Professor MacAndrew's new version is brisk and straightforward. A typical Garnett phrase like "bother the fellow" has become "the hell with him." And those elaborate patronymics have disappeared, so that Tatyana Pavlovna is now simply Mrs. Prutkov. But in his effort to be up-to-date, MacAndrew also afflicts us with such colloquialisms as "know-how" and "twerp." Mrs. Garnett's simple statement, "Don't be angry, Prince...
...world's cultures. Man in his cups is presumed to be irresponsible, out of control; by anaesthetizing the higher centers of the brain, alcohol unshackles the primordial beast. In Drunken Comportment, published by Aldine Press, two U.C.L.A. social scientists challenge this venerable theory. Intoxication, say Craig MacAndrew and Robert B. Edgerton, has rules equally as strict as sobriety. Once they are mastered, the drunk strives conscientiously, and usually successfully, to obey them...
...other side of the scale, Authors MacAndrew and Edgerton cite the Urubu Indians of Brazil. When sober, the Urubus are ferocious headhunters; when drunk, they dance and sing with their enemies. The myth of alcoholic "disinhibition," as the book awkwardly describes it, can no more account for this reversal than for the inebriated conduct of the Aritama of northern Colombia. A morose and self-conscious tribe, the Aritama only grow more so on rum, their favorite potable. "All conversation stops," report the authors, "and gloominess sets...
Edgerton and MacAndrew do not deny the physical effects of drink on, say, a man's ability to walk and talk straight. They do argue that these effects are offset by behavior that is "essentially a learned affair." Their moral: "Since societies, like individuals, get the sorts of drunken comportment that they allow, they deserve what they...