Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such stunning successes are possible, explains Laborit, because of its ability "to depress all that which has to do with affectivity, with passions, rage-the reactions of the more primitive part of the brain-yet leave the advanced centers functioning." American and French companies are already planning to market his patented discovery within two years, after the continuing search for further uses or undesirable side effects has been completed. But even now, says the confident Laborit, "it would seem that one could say without being too optimistic, that pain in all its forms will be called upon to disappear while...
...came while adviser to Philippine President Elpidio Quirino, when he was instrumental in planning the suppression of the Communist-led Huk rebellion and starting the near-bankrupt islands on the road to solvency, offering up to $250 million in U.S. aid, conditional upon basic reforms; of a hemorrhage following brain surgery; in Washington...
Normally it is the auctioneer who points in ecstasy at some modest morsel of art and racks his brain for superlatives. And it is the greybeards, full of probity, in the museum pantheon who toll the bell. But roles were reversed last week when New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art bid a paltry $225 for a sculpture at a Parke-Bernet auction, then gleefully announced that its new acquisition might be worth more than...
Blue Light in the Brain. Author Porter was born on a back-country spread in Texas, got her schooling in Louisiana convents, went on to work for newspapers in New Orleans and New York. She was 29 before she published her first story and 36 before her first book of stories (Flowering Judas) came out. One of the tales, The Jilting of Granny Weatherall, is a ten-page masterpiece. Its setting is the Texas farm, the great good place in which all her best writing is rooted; and the Granny of the title is the author's first representation...
...Jilting, her grandmother is dying, and the story concludes with an eerie and wonderful description of death. "The blue light from the lamp shade drew into a tiny point in the center of her brain. Granny lay curled down within herself, amazed and watchful, staring at the point of light that was herself. It flickered and winked like an eye, quietly it fluttered and dwindled. God, give a sign! There was no sign. She stretched herself with a deep breath and blew out the light...