Word: braines
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...some early impressions of an awed offspring of her poet father Carl. One revelation: Liberty Lover Carl often proved less than democratic about the egalitarian reading habits of his kiddies. "I remember," wrote Helga, "an odd group of books called Bongo, the Jungle Boy. This is etched on my brain because one evening my father stopped in at my room to say goodnight as he was going to his attic quarters. Bongo sailed across the room flapping while a thundering voice reverberated, 'Life's too short for this damned tripe...
Furthermore, appeals to the real unconscious will usually stimulate strong defensive reactions, Bauer said. Brain-washing which uses these appeals may work when brought to bear on one person by many, but it will probably be impossible in the opposite situation, he concluded...
...president of sprawling W. R. Grace & Co., which is the No. 1 banker, shipping line, manufacturer and trader on South America's West Coast, last week turned his businessman's brain and long Latin American experience to the worrisome problem of U.S.-Latin American relations, suggested some concrete ways to improve them. Speaking to alumni of the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Finance and Commerce, Joseph Peter Grace Jr.. 45, noted the hemisphere's close ties, both economic ("It is the area where we have the largest direct private investment abroad-almost...
Doctor Zhivago, by Boris Pasternak. The novel that clinched the Nobel Prize for Russia's greatest living man of letters, since forced by the Soviet's brain-distrusters to reject the award...
...half. To prevent a sense of boredom from interfering with his agnoy during this period, a scratched record player is played, which repeats itself several times a minute. After this, the expectant brother passes down the stairs between a gauntlet of paddlers. He is then interrogated and brain-washed, after which he stands in a stairwell with his mouth open and receives thereabouts raw eggs which the brothers drop from several flights above...