Word: mentor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...taken Kavalerov into his house out of pity for a helpless tippler, and tells himself that in the new era "not all feeling is doomed.'' Volodia is the real horror-a rugged, athletic subman who despises emotion and can write to his mentor: "I am a human machine. You won't recognize me . . ." The contest between the human machine and the two dreamers is unequal; for Kavalerov and Ivan, the only victories are oral, and they subside into a world of fantasy in which decency and humanity go out in a brave show of courage...
...scientific fraud in the form of a faked photo of an experiment is uncovered, and a court of dons quietly strips the seeming culprit of his rank as a university fellow. Hush-hush becomes buzz-buzz as the ex-fellow, Donald Howard, insists that his renowned old scientific mentor, now dead, framed him. To compound this apparent caddishness, Howard is also a fellow traveler and a boorish personality. His only ally is the conscience of a few of his colleagues who fear justice has miscarried...