Word: ervin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...incredible. Their statement conjures up an image of teams of white-coated neurosurgeons descending on America's ghettos, intent on weeding out those with faulty brains and patching up their neurological circuitry. Fortunately, the physicians' suggestions never got far beyond the theoretical stage, although in 1970 Mark and Ervin did come out with a semi-popular book entitled Violence and the Brain, intended to advance the notion that, as Sweet writes in the introduction, "one way to understand and control the current colossal problem of violence is to increase our knowledge of brain mechanisms...
...violence in the inner cities--reasons like poverty and prejudice. The physicians argued that someone should investigate, too, the likely possibility that the rioters themselves were somehow defective, that there were defects in their mental wiring. Dr. Vernon H. Mark, now associate professor of Surgery, Dr. Frank R. Ervin, and Dr. William H. Sweet, now professor of Surgery Emeritus, wrote...
Samuel Chavkin's new book presents a series of ideas on quantifying and manipulating human behavior from chillingly over scientific thinkers like Mark, Ervin and Sweet. He is a muckraker--not in the present pejorative sense of needlessly digging out past personal scandals of celebrities, but in the sense of following the fine old tradition of the crusading journalist seeking out corruption or abuse of power wherever it may occur and exposing that evil to the timeless cure of fresh air and sunlight. His book brings out a creeping fascism: in what he sees as a slow rise in scientists...
...happened to pass by the church with a cassette recorder just before the recital. He went in, heard the beginnings of the astonishing performance-the sort of huge sound that Anton Rubinstein reputedly possessed -and taped it. The discovery was akin to some great archaeological find. The pianist was Ervin Nyiregyházi (pronounced near-edge-hah-zee), a Hungarian-born prodigy who made his debut at six, toured Europe as a Wunderkind and conquered Carnegie Hall in 1920, at 17. Then, following a string of public and private disasters, including the first of nine marriages, he vanished from public...
...edit the accompanying texts. The ex-President's aide, Robert Barrett, would not disclose the fee, but he did point out, "Mr. Ford believes in the free-enterprise system." Considering some recent examples of huckstering by ex-politicians, such as the American Express endorsements by Watergate Senator Sam Ervin and onetime Vice-Presidential Candidate William ("Remember me?") Miller. Ford's venture might be said to have its sterling qualities. There is nothing shoddy about the product: a set of the medals in silver costs $1,950: in gold...