Word: fluids
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bring to nervous therapeutics a new power-the poetic fluid," Madame Guillet announced. Her science is based on Berillon's theory of cerebral balance. This theory contends that, in the perfectly adjusted human, the right half of the brain, containing will power and reason, exactly balances the left half, which encompasses man's sentimental and mystical qualities. When one side greatly outweighs the other, psychological disorders result...
Madame Guillet divides poetry's healing properties into rhythm, sonority and inspiration. Read or heard in the proper prescription and doses, it affects the "poetic fluid" in such a way that the brain recovers its equilibrium and nervous disturbances are cured...
Reversing the usual formula and coming to Boston after a winnowing road trip, "Anna Lucasta" is a relief from the glut of ubiquitous tryouts that usually dominate the Boylston boards. After long acquaintance, the cast has mastered its vehicle sufficiently to give a performance that is fluid throughout, practiced, but not off-hand. The difficult problem of presenting a prostitute with sympathy rather than derision is artistically accomplished and the mother's benevolent attitude toward her wayward daughter is made understandable, not ridiculous. The clash of wills between the unrelenting, religious father and his family is demonstrated so convincingly...
...response, John T. Edsall, associate professor of Biological Chemistry, outlined the uses to which the blood will be put, stressing the importance of keeping a supply ready for emergencies. During the war Edsall worked on the development of new fractionating processes which are now being used to make the fluid usable and relatively imperishable...
...situation on the labor front is what would be described in military dispatches as "fluid." In Congress, the Republicans, who hoisted labor legislation to a "must" position on the field of domestic action, are wrangling over what to do and how to do it. And while the Nation's solons wrestle with the hopeless task of trying to legislate labor disputes out of existence, the workers themselves are readying to do battle with their only really effective weapon--the strike...