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...tantalizing questions are now bugging medical science: Can man learn to take more knowledge for his province by putting more of his brain to active use? What parts of the brain are responsible for controlling various movements, functions and faculties, from aimless thumb-twiddling to Boolean algebra? To the first question, there is still no answer. And neurologists have not yet agreed on a detailed mapping of brain areas and brain functions...
Mother Advocate now shines from the newsstands 64 pages big, prettily disguising her prodigious fatness in gay covers, blue, white and green. But gluttony is not so easily concealed and inside all the evidences are there, aimless hulks of matter lacking any energy or muscle. So somnolent, dull and lifeless an Advocate I have not seen before, for the editors have ruthlessly stuffed her full of all the idle weeds that grow in our sustaining corn...
Sometime Thing. She made one friend. His name is Michael New. He is Trinidad English, 23 years old, and apparently aimless-a sulky, moody, pouting fellow whose hair hangs down in golden ringlets. He may go down in history as the scholar who spent three years at Harvard as a freshman. "I was sure it would only last two weeks as usual," says Joan. "But then after three weeks there we were, still together. We were passionately, insanely, irrationally in love for the first few months. Then we started bickering and quarreling violently." Michael now disappears for months...
...Walk serves no technical purpose other than, as its innovators tell it, to re-create the aimless wandering that is so much a part of Life. Asked why his characters walk so much, Director Antonioni is indignant: "Why did Joyce end Ulysses with a monologue? Why does Bergman always talk about...
...flight was to check the performance of the capsule's oxygen, electrical-and attitude-control systems. Considered critical was the amount of fuel needed. Schirra proved, as the technicians had suspected, that both Glenn and Carpenter could have managed with much less fuel if they had done less aimless maneuvering...