Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...mental-health congress in Vienna last week, before psychiatrists from 41 nations, Professor Nikolai Oserezski laid down the Soviet line: the brain operation known as lobotomy "is an anti-physiological method that violates the principles of humanity...
...means approved by all Western specialists (TIME, June 22). For a generation, Russia's doctors have been conditioned to follow, sheeplike, the late Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, of conditioned-reflex fame. Following his patterns, they believe that if any part of the physical brain is damaged or destroyed, the mind is damaged beyond repair. Lobotomy, argued Oserezski, damages the high brain centers and turns a human being into a vegetable. He quoted a Soviet colleague as saying that it "makes idiots out of madmen." He also put it in ideological terms: "By performing a lobotomy, the surgeon is guilty...
...crikey!"). But in spite of such misadventures, Billy Bunter has managed to survive-at the same age and in the same school-for 45 years. Last week Britons were once again reading all about him in a new book called Billy Bunter's Brain-Wave, by Charles Hamilton...
...suggestions were not new. "It's just taking a lot of old lumber and a few nails," said he, "and making something out of them." To many a conservative Congressman, the Ruml plan seemed little more than a bookkeeping operation, reminiscent of the New Deal's brain-trust days. Admitted Ruml: "It's a bookkeeping operation, but not 'just' a bookkeeping operation. It may be that in these years the splitting of the budget is more important than splitting the atom. We can't have a free economy with high taxes...
Lotto was a 16th century forerunner of Degas in France and Eakins in America. Like them, he tried to portray not just the skull beneath the skin, but also the brain beneath the skull. He was by turns humorous, analytical and bizarre, but never very bold. Instead of the grand simplicity fashionable in his day, Lotto offered narrow complexity. He was perhaps the first great "psychological painter," so of course the 20th century cottons...