Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...U.S.A., may become the favorite of the younger set. For one thing, the entrance is only 5 ft. high, and adults are reduced to watching on closed-circuit TV. For another, kids can press buttons and twist knobs to their heart's content. The sea and the human brain are explored in other displays...
...NUITS DE PARIS, by Nicolas-Edme Restif de la Bretonne. Restif may be somewhat of a comedown from the great court gossip, Saint-Simon, but he set down the life in Paris just before the Revolution vividly and prophetically, and thus produced, without his aristocratic brain ever knowing it, an indelible picture of an 18th-century slum...
...probably be out of action for quite a while, but there were no neurological injuries, no paralysis, no immediate need for surgery. Marvella Bayh was in good condition; Senator Bayh had a severe muscle strain. But Ed Moss, one of Teddy's ablest, most faithful friends, died of brain injuries during surgery. Zimny had died before help came...
...Episcopal Bishop of Arizona since 1945, member of a Virginia family that produced nine clergymen (including bishops of Texas and Brazil), who ministered first to West Point cadets, then to Long Island suburbanites before going west, where parishioners ranged from the retired rich to the Havasupai Indians; of brain tumor; in Carmel, Calif...
Always out of pocket and always complaining, like Beethoven, of his ill health (he had "overworked" his brain, he said, during a brief stint on the old New York Tribune and never recovered), Thayer labored for 40 years correcting dates, altering anecdotes and filling in the vast gaps in the Beethoven chronology. Because he could not find an English publisher, the Life came out, volume by volume, in German; by the time it appeared in English in 1920, it had long been regarded by scholars as a classic and its author had been dead for 23 years. Though long...