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...mark of Cain is on the century. More than 100 million people in the last six decades have been killed in military action alone, and the hairy thumb of violence has not lost its itch. Can man learn, before it is too late, to control the Cain in his constitution? Only if he understands the brute, says Austria's celebrated Naturalist Konrad Lorenz (King Solomon's Ring, Man Meets Dog). But the brute, he hastens to add, cannot finally be understood in psychiatric terms because man is too small a measure for such things. Aggression...
Faced with a person who has lost a finger in an accident, most surgeons do little more than sew up the stump -though in some cases they may transplant one of the patient's own fingers, especially to replace a thumb. Russia's Dr. Viktor Kalnberz goes much further...
Because finger nerves are too small for grafting, the transplanted digit has little or no sensation, and there is not much flexion at its joints. The new finger must be moved as a unit from the knuckle. This is no great drawback, particularly for thumb grafts, which have enabled patients to pick up and use tools, a pen, a spoon or a glass...
...Left Bank, a party for a colleen celebrating her abortion, pimping in Harry's New York Bar in Paris, painting lighthouses, doping greyhounds, springing an I.R.A. mate from a British nick-all of this is mixed together every which way like an Irish stew. The stirrer has his thumb in the pot; it improves the taste...
Oysters & Bequests. At home with his wife Kay, he preferred to relax with slippers and pipe, thumb through old auction catalogues. Occasionally he turned cook, entertained friends with gourmet Chinese dinners, including a sauce that he maintained had 99 ingredients...