Word: braine
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair girl (later Nicer O'Pair) who, like Earwicker's sleeping daughter in Finnegans Wake, stirs the men's fantasies of commingled lust and guilt. At other times they worry about work, dream about traveling; sometimes timetables rip like trains through Ecks's brain...
...Post, the Times this week will put a mock-up of a new afternoon paper through a dry run. Dummies of the Times's entry, dated Oct. 1, show a standard-size page comprising only six columns. As yet unnamed, the new paper is the result of brain-trusting by a twelve-man committee of Timesmen headed by Assistant Managing Editor A. M. Rosenthal. Managing Editor Clifton Daniel stressed that the Times as yet has made no decision to publish. "This is an experiment to see what type of afternoon paper it might be if we go ahead...
...Flying Tiger, it won't hurt that he is a licensed pilot who flies his own twin-engined Aero Commander, goes so far as to call his new job a "merger of avocation and vocation." Says Prescott of his new colleague: "This guy is a brain. He's gutsy too. He wants to swing, wants to do things." The way it sounds, Hoffman should fit right in at Flying Tiger...
Even the British came in force. Some 50 British corporations set up shop at Harvard Business School in their first concerted U.S. drive, which they call the "Brain Game...
...Asimov feels that he must work even faster. He has been haunted ever since boyhood by the fact that the human brain reaches the peak of physiological development by the age of 16, after which it can only deteriorate. "My memory is not what it used to be," he says, "and some day the atrophy of the brain cells will overtake the benefits of my experience...