Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...roll number, I Wanna Hold Your Handel, spoofing the composer and the Beatles, is one of the highlights of this revue imported from the campus on the Cam. The fun flows as seven manic but unassuming Britons set out to tickle a rib rather than wash a brain...
...doors have not been opened, but a more tangible proof of godhood is their incestuous relationship, which sets them apart from the others and constitutes normal behavior only among gods. By making Honor the more powerful of the two, Miss Murdoch seems to attest the primacy of blood over brain. As for the syrnbolism of the severed head, it may signify the neurotic tyranny of intellect over instinct, or it may denote the divorce of mind and body that has split modern man's psyche...
...drug? The researchers found that the human body is resourceful enough to meet the emergency. If it does not speed up, the heart manages to increase total blood output by the simple device of increasing its output of blood per beat. The effect is the same: to give both brain and limbs an added supply of oxygen for fight or flight...
...some cases, said Dr. Marshall, a small steal produces no obvious ill effects; this has been dubbed "the subclavian snitch." But Dr. Marshall suggested that a truly massive steal, in which both carotid arteries are also robbed of blood, might well be called "the great brain robbery...
...drive to propose solutions to problems the Kennedy staff has consulted many professors and other experts. Privately his advisors express surprise--and disgust--at Keating's ridiculing their use of professors and the Senator's denouncement of "Kennedy's $100 million brain trust...