Word: humanizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week Dr. James Weneeslas Papez, professor of anatomy at Cornell University, had a heavy mail. He had published in Archives of Neurology and Psychiatry a paper entitled A Proposed Mechanism of Emotion, which many experts considered to be the most coherent and logical explanation of human emotion yet devised by science. It was the first complete account, in physiological terms, of the evolution of a simple nerve impulse into a colorful, complex emotional experience. Queries and requests for reprints were coming in by dozens and scores...
...human brain the cerebral cortex, whose outer layers are visible in pickled specimens as the familiar wrinkled folds which look like sweetbreads, is the seat of reason and intellection. It is also the seat of emotional consciousness. But consciousness is not a process; it is an end-product. The mechanisms which produce emotional consciousness appear to be situated in the diencephalon, a central cluster of organs which is enfolded by the cerebral hemispheres...
Stop-Over (by Matt and Sam Taylor; produced by Chase Productions, Inc.). To prove that suffering regenerates the human spirit, the Brothers Taylor coop up an odd lot of sinners for one night, torment them with gunplay and passion, turn them loose before dawn, chastened and wiser...
...listeners in the U. S. heard gibberish of this sort one day last week, pronounced in a queer, blurred, atonal voice like that of a person who has been stone deaf since birth. As a matter of fact the words, which came from London, were not spoken by a human being at all but were uttered by an apparatus in the hands of Sir Richard Paget, 69-year-old barrister, linguist, musician, acoustician, who clings to the old British tradition that well-disposed people of the aristocracy should take an interest in the arts and sciences...
...Richard believes that human speech is primitive, that gestures could be much more expressive. His voice apparatus is largely a metal and fabric tube which has parts corresponding to the larynx, tongue, and palate. He gets recognizable syllables by various arrangements of his hands on the mouthpieces. Air is furnished by a bellows which he operates with his foot. Although he designed it to show, by crude but effective imitation, the crudity of human speech, some U. S. listeners thought they could detect in its manual utterances a trace of British accent...