Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychologists have long known that a person sees more than he realizes. The brain registers impressions that flash past too quickly to be consciously noted, uses the subconscious impressions to shape opinions and ideas. This week a New York University psychologist told how subconscious sight was used to fool subjects into thinking that a static portrait was really changing...
...maids are well-trained. As the quantity increases, the quality of the work has slipped until U.S. housewives often put up with inefficiency that no businessman would stand for. The washing machine, the mangle, and the modern stove are as baffling to some maids as a Univac electronic brain; the housewife herself operates them, or they get broken. While Americans will put up with high prices indefinitely, the time may be at hand when employment agencies would do better to set up training courses for maids instead of an inquisition for employers. As one Los Angeles agent says...
...creature: the cave-chested, pout-lipped, black-jacketed hero of such pictures as Rock All Night ("Some have to dance . . . some have to kill!"), Reform School Girl ("Boy-hungry wildcats gone mad!"). The teen-spleen movies, following the monster epic's formula of low-budget and low brain-wattage, are packing in the same audiences...
...Between bouts of love, Justine searches for something to believe in. She learns most from Balthazar, an initiate of the cabala, whose crypticisms ("Passionate love even for a man's own wife is also adultery") leave her in such a state that "at night you can hear her brain ticking like a cheap alarm-clock...
...strength from batch to batch. Since their effects are precisely measurable and predictable, surgeons use them to relax muscles by blocking the transmission of impulses from nerves, but stopping well short of the Indians' desired end point-where the muscles of breathing are denied signals from the brain's respiratory center, causing death. In surgery curare-like compounds permit the use of lighter anesthetic doses. They are especially valuable in abdominal operations because they cut down the activity of muscles around the gut. They facilitate the passing of a tube through the windpipe for artificial respiration. They...