Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...days, Brezhnev, Kosygin and other ranking officials shuttled to Moscow's four airports welcoming arriving delegations. For trusted comrades like East Germany's Walter Ulbricht and Mongolia's Yumzhagin Tsedenbal, there were Slavic smacks on the cheek. There were no kisses for the arriving Rumanians. Brezhnev proffered a perfunctory hand to Rumania's independent-minded President and Party Boss Nicolae Ceausescu, who has often opposed Soviet plans...
...learn correspondingly little about it in medical school. The great British physiologist Sir Charles Sherrington described pain as "the psychical adjunct of an imperative protective reflex." More simply, pain is what the victim perceives in his mind after he has touched a hot stove-and reflexively pulled back his hand to guard against further burn damage...
...order to live with it, I paint it beautiful. The green man looks back at it indirectly, through a mirror. The little monsters are like the people who seemed to me monsters when I walked the streets of Vienna as a boy during the war." On the other hand, the green man has holes in his shoes simply because "it makes the feet more interesting." The folds of his trousers swirl into an extra ear. "Why not have an extra ear in one's trousers, to hear better and different things?" Brauer's point is that...
...strenuously imaginative production some experiments must fail. Director Kahn has the leaders of France actually speak French while a man and a woman translate into microphones and loudspeakers simultaneously, in U.N. fashion. The effect is clever but distracting. On the other hand, a sense of the seeming invulnerability of the French forces is aptly conveyed by having them outfitted like hockey goalies. Initially, this creates the illusion of invincible force, but later it is revealed as the symbol of futile totalitarianism...
...expression and gesture; talk occupies only a minimal place in his limited culture. If, for example, a four-year-old thinks his favorite toy is about to be snatched away by another child, he probably will tense his lips and scowl, thrust out his chin and then raise his hand, as if to strike the offender with an open palm. In the ethological jargon of the Birmingham investigators, the child is in a "defensive beating posture." The more forward he holds his hand, however, the more likely he is to deliver the blow. Recognizing this change to an "offensive beating...