Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...number that both denotes the flash point of paper and identifies one of the innumerable book-burning brigades set up after World War III by a dictatorship determined to put out the fire of freedom in the human heart. Assembled first in that overproductive fiend factory, the fantascientific brain of Author Ray Bradbury, the brigade has now been refurbished by France's Francois Truffaut in a weirdly gay little picture that assails with both horror and humor all forms of tyranny over the mind...
...came to France in 1940 to work on farms or in factories. Some 5,000 are students (64 from North Viet Nam). In general, the expatriates are taller, heavier and have better teeth than their countrymen back home. Part of what a Catholic priest has described as "an unprecedented brain drain from an underdeveloped country" is an estimated 1,200 lawyers, 600 doctors (more than in all Viet Nam) and 300 engineers. High-ranking exiles include Three-Star General Nguyen Van Hinh, the army chief of staff who plotted against Premier Ngo Dinh Diem in 1954. Today...
...graduate of Shanghai's Chiaotung University, Tsien came to the U.S. in 1935 as a mechanical engineer, won a master's degree at M.I.T. the next year, then went on to Caltech. Commissioned a colonel in the Air Force during World War II, he headed a brain trust in Germany at war's end to scout Hitler's missile techniques...
...finds More at a coming-out party. He is a history teacher, and the debutante is a 16-year-old pupil of his, seven months pregnant by him. It is virtually impossible to get this fact and More's marriage proposal across to the girl's brain-drained upper-class parents. Mother (Patricia Routledge) has her dress on backward so that it can be seen better when she is dancing, and her hair seems to be on backward too. When Father (Bayliss) grasps the bad news, he trots to the phone and demands a tuition refund, refusing...
...Assumptions. It is possible that Gross, a freelance writer whose first book, The Brain Watchers, prompted a congressional inquiry into nosy psychological testing techniques, is genuinely interested in sparking a similar inquiry into the medical profession. It is even conceivable that such a thoughtless, careless and incendiary book as this, produced by a layman whose narrative style is not exactly what the doctor ordered ("Major medical policies do not blanketly cover the patient"), will accomplish a worthy...