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...Queen, whose 48,000 devoted subjects are possessed of almost every virtue except a fondness for hard work. The benevolent protection of the British navy and the lush abundance of the 200 or more islands which make up Salote's kingdom make physical labor largely unnecessary. On reaching manhood, every young Tongan gets a grant of eight acres of land from the government. On that land he can spend the rest of his life raising coconuts and bananas with a minimum of effort. As the British Queen's visit drew near last week, the Tongans felt far more...
...Koran allows, he took wives in rapid succession, perhaps 140 in all, but never more than the permissible four at one time, to seal bargains, make alliances and produce sons. There came 40 sons and an estimated 64 daughters (girls are not counted officially). "In my youth and manhood, I made a nation," he once said. "Now, in my declining years, I make...
...fireballing politico who marries into money, gets elected to Parliament, enters the Cabinet and finally becomes Lord Nimmo, without ever losing his missionary zeal or his sense of political destiny. Except the Lord,* which takes Chester Nimmo back in point of time to his mid-Victorian boyhood and young manhood, asks, retrospectively, one central question: What made Nimmo...
Before he met his bride, Martha Bernays, Dr. Freud seems to have had little interest in women. He channeled all his energy into his work-which is what Dr. Jones means when he describes Freud's young manhood as one of "extensive sublimations resulting from considerable repression." But black-eyed Martha loosed the repressions. In the four years of their engagement, Freud wrote her more than 900 impassioned letters, which Jones is "privileged to have been the only person" to examine...
Aristocrat in a Blouse. Apart from a penchant for beards, these two great men are a fascinating study of human contrasts. Tolstoy was a son of the minor aristocracy who entered manhood as an artillery officer (he fought at Sevastopol) and ended it trying to be as much like a peasant as possible. The more he saw of contemporary society, the more he despised it; the more he wrote, the more contemptuous he became of "style" and "art." "The patient's special obsession," he wrote, in a mock case-history of himself, "is that he believes it possible...