Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Edha Best and Brain Aherne play the sinned against and sinning mates of the Lunts. Both are agreeable, thereby undermining the Coward intent at every turn. Aherne displays more character and less foppish romanticism that the author seemed to have in mind. Miss Best, looking winning and dove-like, is asked only to coo and weep. Cecil Beaton's sets are tastefully appropriate; his idea of Serena's sitting room seems about what the Marchioness herself would choose...
...nervous systems and bloodstreams. If so, separating them should be far easier than with the Brodies, of whom only Rodney Dee survived. But doctors still could not be sure that the girls did not share a single sagittal sinus (a major vein returning blood from the top of the brain toward the heart). It was this defect that proved fatal to Roger Lee Brodie. Before surgery is attempted, the twins will be studied for months by the same medical team that operated on the Brodies...
Some of the brain tissues, though soft and juicy, are more permanent than bone. One of the most permanent elements is iron; the same iron atoms stay in the body for a long time. Dr. Aebersold believes that 2% of the body's substance is an ample allowance for the part that sticks around for as long as a year. A human body, he says, should not be considered permanent in a material sense. It is more like a famous old regiment, all of whose members have changed many times over, while the regiment retains its organizational identity...
...Heron's purpose is to find out by experiment how the brain behaves when deprived of fresh and varying stimulation from the senses. The problem is a practical one. Men watching radar screens on which nothing changes for hours often fail to see a strange blip when one appears. Many auto drivers are "hypnotized" into crackups by long hours behind the wheel on monotonous highways...
...Heron is doing a specific and limited experiment, and he does not intend to speculate. But it has occurred to many observers that his technique of confusing and dimming the brain by starving it of sensation might be used, with proper modification, for darker purposes. It might explain the Communists' success in getting untrue but apparently willing "confessions" out of prisoners led into a courtroom right out of isolated cells...