Word: well
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Died. Dr. Gregory Zilboorg, 68, Russian-born Manhattan psychiatrist, secretary to the Minister of Labor in Kerensky's short-lived provisional government, who fled to the U.S. in 1919, helped found (1936) the Committee for the Study of Suicide in hopes of finding a prevention for suicide, psychoanalyzed well-heeled patients, wrote several books (Sigmund Freud, Freud and Religion); of cancer; in Manhattan...
...sons of Railroad Baron Jay Gould, a yachtsman and globetrotting chum of European royalty who developed a weakness for actresses, married a jaunty member of Buffalo Bill's circus troupe named Katherine Clemmons who in 1909 enlivened a separation trial by complaining that it was hard to dress well on $40,000 a year; in Manhattan...
Love with Torture. Author Humes has devised a story that goes well beyond the tensions and the holocaust on the island. At the funeral, young Sulgrave meets the commander's wife, and there begins a tortured, driving love affair that is not only credible but deeply revealing. Through it the reader and Sulgrave begin to see what made the commander and Lieut. Dolfus the inscrutable men they seemed on the island. Theirs had been a common past, itself a prelude to ultimate unhappiness...
Author Humes does his work in flashbacks, not the smooth ones of a Marquand, but brusque revelations carved out like sections of a monument to doom. Unfortunately, he also chooses to interpolate interior monologues, which prove only that he has not read James Joyce well enough. But these form a minor irritant compared to the book's merits -clean writing, crisp description, and a surprisingly accurate sense of the bitter relationships, mostly unspoken, between the enlisted Negroes and their commander. Author Humes is no optimist. Every page of Men Die implies an underlying sense of doom for mankind...
Some of the episodes are clearly autobiographical. Like Serezha, for instance, Author Pasternak was once a tutor in the home of a well-to-do merchant. As a tutor, Serezha is plagued less by his duties than by the drives of his own masculinity. He has tortured Platonic talkfests with Anna Arild, companion to the mistress of the house; Anna is a strait-laced Danish widow who interprets Serezha's every comment as a prelude to seduction. Finally, sexual tension drives him into the arms of the town prostitute, a "hoarse beauty" of an earthiness so casual that, "while...