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...Gaulle is convinced that his "national imprint" raises him above politics. When his Gaullist U.N.R. party was organized in 1958, he was asked whether it should be a party of the right, center or left. Declared the general: "De Gaulle is not of the left. Nor of the right. Nor of the center. De Gaulle is above " After the 1962 referendum on the Algerian peace agreement, an aide ran to the Elysee Palace to tell the President that he had won a staggering 90% majority. De Gaulle pondered the news, then leaped to his feet. "This country," he thundered...
...research subjects ranged from cannibalistic flatworms to elderly patients in a Canadian psychiatric hospital. But both the psychiatrists and the flatworm fanciers were working with the same basic stuff: ribonucleic acid (RNA), which seems to be the chemical paper that carries the imprint of animal and human memories. Learned reports on the widely varied projects last week contained startling but strangely similar suggestions for the future. Some day, said the worm workers, students may be able to take their lessons in tablet form. Some day, said the psychiatrists, an old man's failing memory may be rejuvenated in much...
...Boost from Yeast. Dr. D. Ewen Cameron, imaginative and resourceful head of Montreal's famed Allan Memorial Institute, was impressed by the fact that as his patients grew older, the amount of RNA in their cells decreased. Although the plausible theory that the imprint of memory is reflected in changes in RNA molecules (TIME, Feb. 10, 1961) has not yet been proved, Dr. Cameron wondered whether patients with memory defects might be helped by booster doses...
...seminary reflected the ortho doxy of its early teachers. The first professor hired, Dr. Archibald Alexander, was a strict, commonsensical Calvinist who believed that God's truth in the Bible was like a seal and "the human heart was like wax that receives the imprint of the seal." Another early teacher, Samuel Miller, endlessly lectured students on such matters of etiquette as why they should not spit tobacco juice on the carpet. "I have known a few tobacco chewers in whom this habit had reached such a degree of concentrated virulence," he wrote, "that they even compelled persons...
Rimbaud was the classic beautiful boy, whose fatal charm somehow carried within itself the seeds of disaster. Yet this boy, who stopped writing poetry at 21, reshaped the poetic idiom of his time, and left his imprint on the generations to come. For Rimbaud perfected, if he did not invent, the prose poem, into which he poured the visions of fiis subconscious: "I have stretched ropes from belfry to belfry, garlands from window to window; gold chains from star to star, and I'm dancing." Today, the influence of Rimbaud is visible in the works of such diverse poets...