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...highest point of pre-conquest art-and the most exciting part of the Los Angeles show-was the painted room of the temple at Bonampak, a pyramid whose corbel vaults-arches made by stepping stones inward-display 8th century Mayan frescoes strangely linked in style with the flat, frontal reliefs of the ancient Egyptians. Their bold, sophisticated expressionism is so compatible with modern art that they suggest the eternal life of forms...
Only a fraction of Venezuela's 7,000,000 people are Communists or Castroites. They stand little chance of toppling President Rómulo Betancourt by direct frontal attack. But they are persistent at sabotage and artful in harassment, hoping to prove that Betancourt cannot maintain order. So far, the tough old ex-revolutionary - who wants to be come his country's first freely elected President to survive his term - has been powerless to end the terrorism...
...college is more than a matter of acquiring knowledge..." And his conclusion is inconclusive, to say the least: "Because truth is not for or against anything. Truth simply is." Father Padberg's "The Word on the Harvard Seal" demonstrates even more unhappily how Truth rarely yields to a frontal assault...
...brain differs from the animals' in having a huge neocortex, a thick new bark containing billions of nerve cells. Each half of the cortex is divided into four main lobes: frontal (behind the forehead), temporal (inside the temple), parietal (under the crown), and occipital (at the back of the head). Animals do not speak, write, or think abstractly, and presumably both halves of their brains are equally active. At birth, the human brain is little different from an animal's. A newborn infant who has suffered severe damage to the left side of the brain may have almost...
Fracture of the base of the skull, with laceration of the fornix cerebri (white fibers connecting the brain's hemispheres); contusion of the frontal and temporal lobes; severe shock; fracture of nine ribs; pneumothorax (air in the pleural space around the lungs); hemothorax (blood in the same space); rupture of the pubic bone junction; fractures of the pubic, hip and haunch bones, and of the head of the left thigh bone; severe contusions of abdominal organs; rupture of the urinary bladder; paralysis of both arms and both legs; gradual failing of circulation, and gradual failing of breathing, apparently from...