Word: lucid
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...blood supply to a brain "that had become used to low cardiac output." When questioned, Clark would "look perplexed," Berenson said. "Sometimes he would not know he had had surgery or what it was for." Clark often appeared too discouraged to try to speak, but at times he was lucid enough to be painfully aware of his condition. "My mind is shot," he told Berenson more than once...
...Clark's wife Una Loy in the hospital corridor and was told, "Barney is great. He is a totally different person." Berenson quickly confirmed this for herself. "He started talking to me like I was a psychiatrist. It was a 20-minute monologue." Now, she said, Clark is "lucid and rational. He wants to participate in his recovery...
...Soviet life too conscious of the blinders any Westerner is forced to wear when looking at the USSR, to go out on a limb. Indeed, he performs an adept juggling act, usually balancing all sides to a problem and never maintaing that his findings are the truth. But his lucid study convincingly details the major dilemmas that the Soviet Union's new leaders face. Goldman doesn't speculate on what the Russians will do next, but he does lay out their options. And although he makes no policy recommendations for the West, Goldman's analysis of the state...
...deterrence requires murderers to reckon at least roughly the probable costs of their actions. But if a killer is drunk or high on drugs, that kind of rational assessment might be impossible. Passions are often at play that make a cost-benefit analysis unlikely. Most killers are probably not lucid thinkers at their best. Henry Brisbon Jr. (see box) may be legally sane, but he is by ordinary standards demented enough to make a mess of any theory of deterrence. Says New York University Law Professor Anthony Amsterdam: "People who ask themselves those questions-'Am I scared...
...KONNER'S lucid style is easy to understand even when he ranges into a discussion of nerve cell structure or hormone levels in the blood. It is refreshing to hear from a scientist who can convey so many wide-ranging concepts, and many of them are not that simple so clearly and, at times humorously. In his discussion of the roots of language, he writes. "It is possible that some selection pressure for its emergence came from sexual selection operating on the courtship behavior of males that is to put it bluntly, the male who talked the best line...