Peter Gay (Author of Frd)

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Peter Gay (1923–2015) - Volume 49 Issue 1

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We follow the amb medil stunt's long, sexually starved urtship of Martha Bernays, a romance that, acrdg to Gay, fluenced his theori about the sexual roots of mental ailments. Dcribed by Gay as a “self-ma man, ” Morz Fröhlich was born 1894 the predomantly Polish village of Podjanze Upper Silia and received only an eighth-gra tn before embarkg on a bs reer.

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Footnote 1 Dpe his middle-class standg, Gay's father was a lifelong supporter of the Social Democratic Party (SPD) and a pronounced secularist, views he passed onto his son. ”Footnote 3 By mid-1937, Gay's parents had formed a plan to move the fay om Berl to Florida, where an uncle lived wh his Amerin wife, but the events of 1938 ratcheted up the prsure even further. This entailed not only buyg new tickets but also alterg the date and ship name on the fay's certifite of passage, a fery Gay's father acplished wh precisn and patience.

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Wh the necsary documents hand and a few valuabl packed a small crate, Gay's fay parted om Hamburg on April 27, 1939, and arrived Havana two weeks later.

Footnote 5 In the meantime, Gay explored the entertaments of Havana and worked on his English, polishg his prose at the Havana Bs Amy (to which he received a scholarship) and vourg Amerin perdils like Time, Collier's, and the Saturday Eveng Post. Gay's mother, often poor health and now sufferg om tuberculosis, was sent for treatment to the Natnal Jewish Hospal Denver, brgg the whole fay along wh her.

Jt weeks after arrivg Colorado, Gay's fay applied for Amerin cizenship, and, followg the example of a who had immigrated several years earlier, they Amerinized their first, middle, and last nam. This was ma possible by the terventn of Gay's former high school English teacher, Helen Hunter, who worked out a plan to allow Gay to fish his high school gree by pletg a private urse wh her on William Shakpeare.

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