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Burroughs was introduced to the group by an old friend, David Kammerer, who was enamored of Lucien Carr.
In the 1920s, experiments by Paul Kammerer on amphibians, particularly the midwife toad, appeared to find evidence supporting Lamarckism, but his specimens with supposedly acquired black foot-pads were found to have been tampered with.
In The Case of the Midwife Toad Arthur Koestler surmised that the tampering had been done by a Nazi sympathiser to discredit Kammerer for his political views, and that his research might actually have been valid.
Reich took an increasingly bioenergetic view of libido, perhaps influenced by his tutor Paul Kammerer and another biologist, Otto Warburg.
German TV broadcaster ARD premiered a live-action two-part adaptation starring Justus Kammerer as Nils and directed by Dirk Regel on Christmas 2011.
When Strugatsky brothers got an opportunity to reverse the changes brought on by Soviet censors, they chose to retain the " Kammerer " last name.
The " city " represents a number of figures of the early beat circle: Allen Ginsberg ( as Leon Levinsky ), Lucien Carr ( as Kenneth Wood ), William Burroughs ( as Will Dennison ), Herbert Huncke ( as Junky ), David Kammerer ( as Waldo Meister ), Edie Parker ( as Judie Smith ) and also Joan Vollmer ( as Mary Dennison ) -- though she essentially has a non-speaking role ( however some of her ideas are quoted by the Ginsberg-figure ).
Near the end of the novel, the Waldo Meister character dies by falling from the window of Kenneth Wood's apartment ( a distant echo of the real event: David Kammerer knifed by Lucien Carr, possibly in self-defense ).
He explained away this act as a “ work of art ,” but the apparent suicide attempt, which Carr ’ s family believed was catalyzed by Kammerer, led to a two-week stay in the psychiatric ward at Cook County hospital.
Kammerer ’ s psyche was evidently decaying ; he was barely scraping by, helping a janitor clean his building on Morton Street in exchange for rent.
In early August, Kammerer crawled into Carr ’ s room via the fire escape and watched him sleep for half an hour ; he was caught by a guard as he crawled back out again.
The Golovans were discovered by an Earthling Maxim Kammerer in the course of Prisoners of Power.
Throughout the book it is revealed that the ABM system is actually a network of radiation emitters later destroyed by Maxim Kammerer.
The first contact between Golovans and a human was registered in 2157 ( initiated by Maxim Kammerer ) although officially it happened three years later in 2160 ( see Lev Abalkin ).
* Ludens-an official contact established at " The Great Revelation " in 2199 by Maxim Kammerer and others, although Ludens had operated on Earth in secret for decades
* Saraksh-a small group of progressors, including Rudolf Sikorski, desperately attempted to maintain control over the situation on the planet since 2148 but their entire efforts were undone by Maxim Kammerer in 2157 AD
For nine years progressors tried to ease the tension between rivaling states on the planet, but their efforts were ruined by unknowing Maxim Kammerer in 2157.
The book is narrated by Maxim Kammerer, and tells the story of The Great Revelation.
At the time of their discovery by Maxim Kammerer and Toyvo Glumov, the Ludens on Earth numbered 432.
In 2178, he returned to Earth under suspicious circumstances and, despite being chased by Maxim Kammerer and Rudolf Sikorski, tried to obtain his corresponding detonator.
Also he is mentioned once in The Time Wanderers by Maxim Kammerer.
Just as Maxim Kammerer, Rudolf Sikorski was originally given a Russian name by Boris and Arkady Strugatsky-Pavel Grigorievitch ( Павел Григорьевич ).
Being closely chased by Maxim Kammerer and Rudolf Sikorski, he tried to obtain his corresponding " detonator " from the Museum of Extraterrestrial Cultures ( MEC ).

Kammerer and Island
Strugatsky brothers planned the book to be direct sequel of Prisoners of Power and follow the story of infiltration of the progressor Maxim Kammerer into the elite of the Island Empire.
Studying the materials on Abalkin that Sikorski provided him with, Kammerer discovers that prior to his arrival on Earth, Abalkin was a progressor on Saraksh, working as an undercover agent in the power structures of the Island Empire.

Kammerer and .
Under the Swedish and subsequently Saxon authorities he remained involved in the civic affairs of the city, becoming in 1641 a Kammerer and in 1646 Burgermeister, a position he was to hold for thirty years.
Carr had befriended freshman Allen Ginsberg and introduced him to Kammerer and Burroughs.
On August 13, 1944, Carr killed Kammerer with a Boy Scout knife in Riverside Park in what he claimed later was self-defense.
However most biologists believe that Kammerer was a fraud and even among those who believe he was not dishonest most believe that he misinterpreted the results of his experiments.
* August 17-Paul Kammerer ( died 1926 ), Austrian Lamarckian biologist.
Maxim Kammerer ( 2137-after 2226 ) is a fictional character in Arkady and Boris Strugatsky's series of science fiction novels set in the Noon Universe.
Kammerer starts out as an adventurer and space explorer, becoming involved in the politics of the local civilization of Saraksh and overthrowing the totalitarian regime of one of its states in 2157.
Later Kammerer became a prominent official in the COMCON-2, " Control Committee ", which is a type of intelligence and security service.
While gathering little meaningful information about intentions, history, or potential threat of the Wanderers to the human civilization of Earth, Kammerer eventually presided, as the head of the " Unexplained Events " department of the COMCON-2, over the Great Revelation involving the discovery of Ludens, a subgroup of humans capable of superhuman intelligence after certain medical procedures.
Kammerer appears in Prisoners of Power, Beetle in the Anthill and The Time Wanderers.
Kammerer and Angielczyk ( 2009 ) suggested that the problematic taxonomy and nomenclature of Dicynodontia and other groups results from the large number of conflicting studies and the tendency for invalid names to be mistakenly established.
Hunke valued loyalty and it is thought that Abe Green was of " inestimable assistance " to Lucien Carr and Jack Kerouac when it came to the concealment of the weapon used to murder David Kammerer some years later.
At the age of 14, Carr met David Kammerer ( b. 1911 ), a man who would have a profound influence on the course of his life.
Kammerer was a teacher of English and a physical education instructor at Washington University in St. Louis.
Kammerer was a childhood friend of William S. Burroughs, another scion of St. Louis wealth who knew the Carr family.

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For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.
To perpetuate wealth control led by small groups of individuals who played no role in its creation prevents those with real initiative from coming to the fore, and is basically anti-democratic.
In the following year her father undertook to give a course in Hebrew theology to Johns Hopkins students, and this brought to the Szold house a group of bright young Jews who had come to Baltimore to study, and who enjoyed being fed and mothered by Mamma and entertained by Henrietta and Rachel, who played and sang for them in the upstairs sitting room on Sunday evenings.
The complexities of Venetian politics eluded him, but the story of the revolution itself is told in restrained measures, with no superfluous passages and only an occasional overemphasis of the part played by its leading figure.
This huge hulk played the guitar and he would take it along on our walks and play for us as we sat alone in the woods or by the stream.
The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.
The West Berlin crisis is being played up artificially because it is needed by the United States to justify its arms drive ''.
At the same time, however, I availed myself of the services of that great English actor and master of make-up, Sir Gauntley Pratt, to do a `` quickie '' called The Mystery of the Mad Marquess, in which I played a young American girl who inherits a haunted castle on the English moors which is filled with secret passages and sliding panels and, unbeknownst to anyone, is still occupied by an eccentric maniac.
A biting, pithy parable of the all-pervading hollowness of modern life, the piece has been set by Mlle Lagoon to a sumptuous score ( a single motif played over and over by four thousand French horns ) by existentialist hot-shot Jean-Paul Sartre.
She played chess with him by postcard.
Even a city of thirty thousand might have six baseball teams, sponsored by grocers and hardware merchants or department stores, that played two or three times a week throughout the summer, usually in the cool of the evening, before an earnest and partisan audience who did not begrudge a quarter each, or even more, to be dropped into a hat when the game was half over.
Babe Ruth, as he always did in the Stadium, played right field to avoid having the sun in his eyes, and Tommy Thevenow, a rather mediocre hitter who played shortstop for the St. Louis Cardinals, knocked a ball with all his might into the sharp angle formed by the permanent stands and the wooden bleachers, where Ruth could not reach it.
President Kennedy couldn't stay away from his desk for the 75-minute young people's concert played on the White House lawn yesterday by the 85-piece Transylvania Symphony Orchestra from Brevard, N. C..
Displaying his knowledge of music, the New England-born President remarked that `` probably the best chamber music in the world is played in Vermont, by young Americans -- and here in this school where they have produced extraordinary musicians and teachers, and their work is being duplicated all across the United States.
Then there are a pair of old biddies played by Grace Carney and Sibly Bowan who may be right off the shelf of stock Irish characters, but they put such a combination of good will and malevolence into their parts that they're quite entertaining.
Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.
Music lovers who are not familiar with this literature may hear an excellent example, played for RCA by Emil Gilels.
The concerto's soloist, Hans Richter-Haaser, played with compensatory ease and economy, though without the consummate plasticity to which we had been treated on the previous evening by Herr Riefling.
She sat down and played two slots at once, looking grim, as if bested by mechanical devices, and Owen felt sorry for the lay-sisters depending on her support.
Roman gladiatorial games often referenced classical mythology, and this seems to reference Achilles ' fight with Penthesilea but gives it an extra twist of Achilles ' being " played " by a woman.
Greek Christian scribes played a crucial role in the preservation of Aristotle by copying all the extant Greek language manuscripts of the corpus.

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