Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Ages ago, says Huxley "most of the possibilities available to living substance had been exhausted ... The efficiency of nervous conduction, of sense organs, or digestive systems, of mechanical construction, had all reached limits of one sort or another. Only one feature remained capable of improvement-brain organization and behavior. Only a greater flexibility of behavior and a higher organization of awareness enabled living substance to become capable of conceptual thought and symbolic language; and these ... are the two distinguishing marks of man, and the basis of the latest deployment of life...
...minute interval to the biologist. Man is very young; the human deployment is in an explosive and very early phase. Man is the result of of two thousand million years of biological evolution: he has every prospect of an equal or even greater span of psychosocial evolution of the brain...
...rate lawyer," and Justice can certainly use one. He is a first-rate organizer and Justice, after Clark and McGrath, desperately needs organization. The Republican Party in New York is a reform party, and there is plenty of cleaning up to be done in Washington. Brownell used his political brain to help win the election. Now his legal mind has a chance-a great chance -to show why the election...
...Notwithstanding Peronismo's proclaimed Truth No. 1 that "true democracy is the one that does what the people want," the leader's real job is to decide what the people should want. "The masses are like the muscles directed by the brain . . . One must permit the people to have the 50% that they want-but be sure that one's own 50% is the half that matters...
...went to the last [depth-marker], 297 feet down ... In my bisected brain the satisfaction was balanced by satirical self-contempt. . . [Back] at 264 feet, the rapture vanished suddenly, inexplicably and entirely...