Word: braine
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According to senior Madison Sample Jr., breaking down people according to human characteristics and turning those characteristics into stereotypes is a classic human social response. "The brain organizes objects with headings. For people it organizes according to characteristics." Sample ought to know. He has taken neurobiology, psychobiology, and psychopharmacology. He also explains that the fact that the brain creates stereotypes does not mean they are accurate...
...past, though, he has managed. According to Professor of Psychology Stephen M. Kosslyn, who taught Sample "Brain Damage and the Mind," "If all the students were like him, I would love teaching more than anything. He was one of the rare students who would come up afterward and he asked good questions." Pre-meds normally have trouble in psychology courses which require a background in artificial intelligence and computer models of the brain, but Kosslyn said, "You could see him coming up to speed...
Lecturer in Public Policy Robert Reich, one of Dukakis's economic policy advisers, now says of Kennedy School faculty members, "We are his brain trust in residence." Dukakis won over students and colleagues at the Kennedy School through a combination of accessibility, teaching ability and commitment...
...abandon the reconstructive measures of Roosevelt. His views on social security, farm aid, conservation of resources, and relief all bear the stamp of a man devoted to the needs of the people. His lieutenants are singularly suited to carry forth a progressive program; they would well merit the name "brain trust," were that name not in such ill repute. And who would not prefer William Allen White and Charles Taft to [Rexford] Tugwell...
Unfortunately, Leland is trapped in the airy territory of hardback fiction, where tastes are as refined as sales are poor. If he's lucky, some canny product get the film rights and turn it into a mini-series which those with brain cells can actually watch. Or perhaps he can persuade Avon books to buy it up, put on a slightly racy cover hinting of decadent Southern sensuality and drag a few suburban housewives into the realm of real literature. Otherwise, Mrs. Randall will remain a pleasure reserved only for those in the know...