Word: human
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...really close to the hospital's 40 seriously disturbed children. Said Borocourt's physician-superintendent, Dr. Gerald O'Gorman: "If we're very lucky, we may get the children to form an attachment to an animal-but what is vitally needed is relationship with a human being...
Into Maggie's Arms. Last year Dr. O'Gorman got an odd idea, hesitated ("It did seem a bit cracked"), finally went ahead. To create human relationships for the children, he called on 20 of Borocourt's higher-grade mentally defective young women. He allowed each to act as a Big Sister to two Smiths children, told them to cuddle their charges (under nurses' supervision) as much as they wanted. They promptly worked wonders...
...brain they blew hellebores up his nostrils and set him sneezing. To make him sick they poured antimony and sulphate of zinc down his throat. To clear his bowels they gave him strong purgatives and a brisk succession of clysters. To allay his convulsions they gave him spirit of human skull...
...swizzle doll-heads are made of cashew shells, roughly carved to indicate human features. The cashew shells contain cardol, a notorious source of severe allergic reactions among tropic travelers (TIME, May 13, 1957). Even worse, the heads of the sticks are fitted with eyes that appear to be jequirity beans, are deadly poisonous. The Cincinnati testers fed one of the eyes to a rat, which promptly died. The U.S. PHS warned that if a small child eats one of the beans, serious and perhaps fatal illness may follow...
Giant electronic computers can solve difficult mathematical or logical equations in fractions of a second, but in other ways they are mental defectives. They have no imagination or initiative. They do not learn by experience. They cannot listen to human speech or get information out of reference books. Last week psychologists, neurophysiologists and linguists gathered with mathematicians and physicists at Britain's National Physical Laboratory for an international conference on "The Mechanization of Thought Processes." Its purpose: to explore ways to lift computers above the rank of half-witted prodigies...