Word: braining
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Catholic diocese at 's Hertogenbosch, who worked tirelessly for a more liberal church attitude, calling birth control a matter of conscience, and defending priests who renounced their vows in order to marry, all of which made him an urgent voice for reform during the ecumenical Council; of a brain tumor; in Tilburg, The Netherlands...
...Symptoms. While precise definitions of dyslexia vary, most experts agree that it appears to be inherited in many cases, but may also be the result of early brain injury, and that it leads to reading difficulties in children who otherwise show normal intelligence in mental tests. Dyslexics display a whole syndrome of symptoms (some of which are no cause for concern in preschool-age children, but may indicate dyslexia if they persist beyond this age). Usually they confuse spatial relationships. Horizontally, this leads, for example, to spelling first as frist, very as vrey. Vertically, it may cause mixups between...
...dying of tuberculosis, and the intrusive ardor of a romantic girl who is pursuing her own phantom of love. Around Ivanov, vivid, vulgar, irascibly self-absorbed neurotics drown boredom in vodka and talk, the opiate of the Russian gentry. Ivanov punctuates their endless sentences with a bullet in his brain...
...does not invite to violence. Sociologists have long suspected that within given social classes, crime rates are the same for marihuana-users and non-users. Yet even today, the Bureau will happily shower the inquisitive with rabid little pamphlets documenting crimes, horrible withdrawal-symptoms, and even cases of "brain-rot" induced by marihuana...
...troubles with teaching stem from healthy causes. Ever since Franklin D. Roosevelt formed his New Deal brain trust, professors have been leaping down from their ivory towers to grapple with the earthly day-to-day problems of government and business. Their expertise is suddenly in demand to combat urban blight in Boston, famine in Bombay. "At any one given time," quips University of Chicago Dean Wayne Booth, "a first-class university has at least 10% of its professors in airplanes." Federal money devoted to research projects has multiplied 200 times since 1940, from $74 million to about $15 billion annually...