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Medvedev had long been an irritant to the Soviet authorities. His first sin, in 1969, was to write The Rise and Fall of T.D. Lysenko, a chronicle of Stalin's favorite scientist, a crackpot biologist who was the final, arbitrary word in Russian genetics for more than two decades. His second sin, in 1971, was to write The Medvedev Papers, a tale of Soviet censorship and suppression of intellectuals. Neither book was published in the U.S.S.R., but Soviet officials were so angered by their publication in the West that they finally confined Medvedev to a madhouse for what they...
Victorian children, the author writes, were widely regarded as "little defective adults, sodden with original sin," which could only be squeezed out of them by cramping disciplines. One of nanny's first jobs was to institute rules and punishments regulating eating and elimination. All food on the plate had to be eaten, or it would appear at the next meal. Failure to perform potty at the proper hour (training began at six weeks) brought the certain retribution of laxative powder. Nannying appears to have provided parents with some peculiar satisfactions. As proof that the popularity of the system spread...
...Besides a technical work, Theory of Psychoanalytic Technique (Basic Books; $7.95), rewritten with Dr. Philip Holzman, and an anthology of Dr. Menninger's writings called Sparks (Thomas Y. Crowell Co.; $7.95), edited by Freelance Writer Lucy Freeman, there is a provocative new work, Whatever Became of Sin?, which Hawthorn Books will bring out in October...
What does a 19-year-old know about sin...
...Roger Rosenblatt, who leads the black-fiction seminar this year, A.C. serves the real audience of fiction classics. "What does a 19-year-old know about sin?" he asked a mother who had decided to return to college after more than 20 years away from school, although she felt embarrassed before her younger classmates. To Rosenblatt the alumni's questions about literature are more important than those asked by undergraduates for they dealt with life-related rather than literary-related themes. He was astonished when an alumnus sought to draw a parallel between Invisible Man and Watergate. Rosenblatt echoes many...