Word: braining
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With due respect to all mental giants, I cannot help thinking after reading of Cyberneticist Wiener [TIME, Dec. 27] that we "of mediocre attainments or less" can still provide an insight to the value of the human brain which is fearfully lacking in Professor Wiener's cold analysis...
...capacity persists in the simplest of minds, despite the almost overwhelming inhibition of the modern materialistic civilization. It is dangerously past the time when mental giants should use all their ingenuity and resources to develop that capacity, and leave for a later date the development of a conscienceless mechanical brain...
...galvanized into action. Dressing like a whirlwind, his mind working like a cog, he began to work over countless fearless and colorful ideas. What, for instance, had become of the Student Council's perennially incipient investigation of food? An opening sentence popped into his teeming brain: "Neither the food nor the Student Council has shown any signs of improvement recently...
...that we were here in the presence of another social potentiality of unheard-of importance for good and for evil . . . The first industrial revolution . . . was the devaluation of the human arm by the competition of machinery . . . The modern industrial revolution is similarly bound to devalue the human brain at least in its simpler and routine decisions . . . The human being of mediocre attainments or less [will have] nothing to sell that is worth anyone's money...
Divorced. Raymond ("Ray") Moley, 62, onetime New Deal Brain-Truster and short-time Assistant Secretary of State (1933), now a contributing editor and columnist for Newsweek; by Eva Dall Moley, 59; after 32 years of marriage, two children; in Cleveland...