Word: brained
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...even define what an "idea" is. She uses the term in any number of ways throughout the book. An idea is variously an unfinished thought, a theme, a motif, a model, a goal, an inclination, a theory. An idea seems to be anything that passes through the human brain, a feeling, a desire. If a protagonist is a representation of a particular character type he is "an idea...
...more the inevitable result of a mind that says, "For 347 years we've been producing the most successful people in the world, and so why should we change?" And this arrogance will slither into your brain even as you listen to your last lecture on natural selection and the survival of the fittest, an attitude that trains you to seek success but never to define it. Nobody will challenge you if you take the secure route and follow those who have marched to Chase Manhattan Bank before...
...affair with one of his students (Bo Derek, who is splendid-looking, of course, but whose blankness of eye and manner makes one long to see her admission test). When his wife (Shirley MacLaine) discovers this lapse, she immediately takes up with a young carpenter (Michael Brandon), whose brain has been dulled by an overdose of Consciousness III. Soon they all edgily repair to a country house. There they scandalize the married couple's daughter, who drops by with some problems of her own, and Derek's father, who is a roué of a more traditional...
Sharon Siebert, a former Minneapolis "Aquatennial Queen of the Lakes," and Husband Richard, a neurosurgeon, had been married for twelve years when, in 1974, she began to suffer brain seizures. A cyst operation led to meningitis, and by 1976 she lay helpless at St. Mary's Rehabilitation Center in Minneapolis. Finally, last August, her family and physician agreed that if Siebert's heart or lungs should fail, the staff was in effect to let her die. Now her condition is at the center of a debate about who, if anyone, can make such a decision for a patient...
Later, in discussing the autopsy with Technician O'Connor, Lifton was told that on arrival at the morgue, Kennedy's brain was not in the skull. "The cranium was empty," O'Connor said. But the brain was not removed in Dallas. Lifton found other witnesses who saw a small object wrapped in a sheet being moved through the hospital halls on a cart. When asked what it was, the cart handler said it was a stillborn baby. Lifton found that Bethesda records showed no stillbirths that...