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...kind of scientific quest is the case of Lenin. In 1925 the Soviets, applying a socialist definition of genius, entrusted his brain to a German neurologist, Oskar Vogt. The idea, explains Psychiatrist Walter Reich, was "to establish an institute in Moscow entirely devoted to the purpose of discovering the 'materialist' (that is, 'physical') basis for Lenin's political and philosophical genius." Two years and 34,000 slices later, Vogt found, and the Journal of the American Medical Association reported, a "large number of paths proceeding from the pyramidal cells [triangular nerve cells in the cerebral cortex]." These were taken...
...great carpenter), settled down at a crude desk he had also fashioned and began writing. He had a first line for a new play in mind, and some thoughts about its tragic theme--a man selling his soul and eventually his life to the false values of materialist America. By the wee hours he had completed the first draft of the first act of the play that was eventually known as Death of a Salesman...
Every year between 50 and 100 students apply for the 20 spots in Nicholi’s course, which addresses the question of the existence of God, juxtaposing Sigmund Freud’s materialist worldview with C. S. Lewis’ spiritual worldview...
...this trend is obviously troubling. Children named after products inevitably become associated with them; so, with a name like Chanel, a girl would easily be associated with pricey makeup. People first encountering her conspicuously chichi name quickly deem Chanel a materialist snob...
...1920s, Sheeler had begun to think of the industrial landscape, even at its most unromantic--sheds and conveyor belts, assembly lines and smokestacks--as a place as beautiful as any farm country. It was a materialist faith with a long American pedigree, one that had found its way into the plainspoken art of Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins in the 19th century. Its essence was summed up for the 20th in the dictum of the poet William Carlos Williams, who was an acquaintance of Sheeler's and once sat for his camera: "No ideas but in things...