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...neurologist who pioneered the use of prefrontal and trans-orbital lobotomies as a treatment for severe mental illness; of cancer; in San Francisco. In 1936 Freeman performed the first lobotomy in the U.S. by severing the nerves from the frontal lobes of a patient's brain. An ardent and vocal champion of the controversial procedure, he once supervised or performed 238 operations over a two-week period. Because lobotomies are irreversible and leave some patients in a vegetable-like condition, the treatment was gradually abandoned during...
...nine months of struggle in Bangladesh, the real freedom fighters, the Mukti Bahini, battled as best they could with little outside aid. The Mukti resent the fact that the government has given them few jobs and little patronage, and they have retained most of their firearms. Ranging from ardent patriots to outright thugs, the Mukti are among the most resentful critics of the ineffectual Dacca government, which has been accused of consolidating the position of Sheik Mujibur Rahman's Awami League instead of concentrating on reconstruction...
...university, the factories produce equipment ranging from quartz-tungsten lamps to logic circuits for third-generation computers. The university also plans a petrochemical plant. "The purpose of these factories is to serve as a base for scientific experiments," explains Tang Chin-wen, 39, the textile-mill technician whose ardent agitprop work won him the leadership of the university. "It is to change the situation that prevailed before the Cultural Revolution, when practical knowledge was divorced from theoretical knowledge...
Ibsen's ardent disciple, Shaw, saw women as serene, witty goddesses of reason, but he usually defined them solely by their relationships to men. Candida's final choice is to stay with the bumbling preacher husband who needs her rather than flee with the fiery bohemian poet who can fend for himself. There are exceptions. St. Joan wins martyrdom, and Major Barbara wins control of a munitions empire, both rather atypical social pursuits. And that tells us something. Drama is a reflexive, not an innovative art form, and a playwright can rarely advance much beyond the boundaries that...
...also is interested in more emotional issues, notably the environment (he is an ardent camper and skier). It was Reuss who breathed life into the 1899 federal law regulating waste disposal in navigable rivers, and turned it into a modern-day antipollution measure. Still, Reuss is more at home discussing the fine points of currency-exchange rates with European bankers and statesmen or reading a book. When Nixon agreed in talks with French President Georges Pompidou to devalue the dollar, Reuss quoted the remark made by Henry IV after that cynical monarch converted to Catholicism in order to gain...