By Anthony Burgess
ISBN-10: 0393346382
ISBN-13: 9780393346381
A sharply written satire, Honey for the Bears sends an unassuming antiques broker, Paul Hussey, to Russia to do one ultimate deal at the black marketplace as a want for a lifeless friend's spouse. Even at the ship's voyage throughout, the Russian sensibility starts to pervade: plenty of secrets and techniques and many vodka. whilst his American spouse is affected by a painful rash and he's interrogated at his inn by way of Soviet brokers who comprehend that he's attempting to promote trendy man made attire to the loads starved for type, his precarious internal stability is thrown off for stable. extra drink follows, discoveries of his wife's illicit affair with one other lady, and his personal submerged sexual emotions come breaking throughout the floor, effervescent up in Russian champagne and caviar.
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F . S . R . In Georgia, as elsewhere, there is a chain of ambulatoria, polyclinics, and hospitals, general and special, all linked together. H e discussed with us at some length the education and training of doctors at the M e d i c a l Institute connected with the university, the education of midwives, instructed in Russian as w e l l as in their native languages, maternity and child care, welfare work, and in general the procedure in preventive work and in the treatment of patients. W e visited the Tuberculosis Institute, in a beautiful new building of Renaissance style, splendidly equipped.
N o w they have twenty large hospitals and sanatoria, w h i l e the hospitals for non-Tartars have increased in number. W e were met by the Commissar of Health, a huge fine-looking Tartar. H e took us to visit a large university clinic, including all the departments of medicine, in w h i c h students are taught special subjects. A b o u t 1,500 patients are treated daily at this clinic. I t has 70 beds for in-patients. W e got glimpses of other health institutions in the city, and w e carried away an impression of an Oriental city in the course of transition, w i t h signs of modernization already visible.
G . L . Kuchaidze. W e were oriented as to the char- Moscow to Georgia and the Crimea 43 acter of the city, the rapid mechanization of industry, the development of the university, w h i c h now has about 16,000 students, and the preventive and curative medical services. T h e Commissar pointed out that, except for adaptation to local circumstances, the plan for health w o r k was the same here as in the R . S . F . S . R . In Georgia, as elsewhere, there is a chain of ambulatoria, polyclinics, and hospitals, general and special, all linked together.
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