Word: braine
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends reminded him that he would turn 76 this week. Even more than birthdays, however, Dr. Einstein deplores birthday interviews. But he was duly goaded into a typical bit of self-depreciation. "The world is no longer interested in me," said he at his office in Princeton's brain-crammed Institute for Advanced Study. "I do not consider myself important any more. First, I was nobody, and then I became famous and people developed illusions of greatness about me that were untrue. Now I plan to live quietly . . . unless I feel it is my duty to come forward...
...about his whereabouts, Bruno Pontecorvo, 41, could at last publicly answer the youngster's query, "Yes"-with a vengeance. In a bristling letter to Pravda, Pontecorvo wrote that he had left England because of "the sugar-coated blackmail of the police," found asylum in the U.S.S.R., where his brain had dwelt on "atomic energy for peaceful aims." He also sprang a surprise: he had won a secretly awarded Stalin Prize last year. Later, Pontecorvo, proud occupant of a Moscow flat and a country villa, waved a Soviet passport before newsmen and cried: "I am a Soviet citizen...
...Pivner, the all-too-common man, is a try at redoing Joyce's Mr. Bloom. While some shreds of humanist culture clung to Bloom, Pivner's brain is a sheer pulp of newspaper headlines, self-help manuals and radio commercials ("Hi, gang! Your friend Lazarus the Laughing Leper brings you radio's newest kiddies' program, The Lives of the Saints, sponsored by Necrostyle ... Don't forget, kids, Necrostyle, the wafer-shaped sleeping pill...
Some orthodox psychiatrists have performed thousands of lobotomies, in which a knife is slashed through the cortex, the most essentially human part of the brain. Some do not hesitate to give patients scores or even hundreds of electric or insulin-shock treatments, or to put them in an insulin coma. Alongside these procedures, the red-brick school points out, the use of chlorpromazine and reserpine is gentle. It can make the patient readily accessible if the overworked psychiatrist has a few minutes to practice psychotherapy on him. If psychotherapy can prove its worth even in psychoses, these drugs give...
What do drugs like chlorpromazine do? Nobody knows precisely, but they seem to act on a primitive part of the midbrain or on the nerve pathways connecting this to the cortex. At any rate, this primitive part of the brain seems to be a center for mobilizing anxiety, even though the anxiety is experienced only in the cortex. This explains both the anxiety-relieving effect of the lobotomy and the different type of reaction to chlorpromazine...