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...scientists that all tastes and smells accelerate the heart rates of adolescents. A sweet taste speeds the heart by 2% or 3%, bitter and sour tastes race the pulse 17% to 20% faster. Steiner, in long-term test studies of infants, discovered that first reactions to smells are inborn, not acquired. Newborns react positively to pleasant odors and screw up their faces in response to unpleasant ones, even before they have tasted any food...
...wonderful, impressive ballerinas-like the great old girls, only without being bulky." David Howard, a teacher who has worked with Darci and many other top dancers, has a ballet master's unblinking eye. Says he: "She has good legs, good training and inborn strength. She is a little wide in the shoulders. She will have to learn to camouflage it and create a softer illusion." He questions whether Darci is climbing too fast: "There is not enough patience today. Many dancers burn out. If they look physically as if they can do it, they are given too much...
...This inborn need to have a Supreme Being comes closest to the hitherto indefinable soul. Here is a simple idea any man can believe...
What then was the secret of Edison's inventiveness? The core of it must remain as elusive as the mystery of why Rembrandt handled chiaroscuro so masterfully; it was an inborn gift, honed by practice but unteachable. Nobel-prizewinning Physicist Isidor I. Rabi, for one, maintains that Edison could no more have stopped himself from inventing than a born punster can refrain from playing word games. Robert Conot, author of a 1979 biography of Edison, A Streak of Luck, observes that Edison's mind "multiplied devices from a single idea like a dividing amoeba and then compartmentalized...
...born this way. It hardly matters. Because everything that is successful in local politics, a big first-name constituency, the ability to make people smile and think you are someone who'll listen to their worries, the ready handshake and the meaningful wink, seem to have been inborn or ingrained in Al, and it all works to his benefit. (I had a dream the other night in which Al figured prominently. I dreamt that, when he was born 61 years ago in East Cambridge, where he still lives, the infant Al Vellucci raised his hand to stop the attending midwife...