Word: midnighters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From then on toward midnight, he tries, in his own words, "to prioritize." Prioritizing takes him into the Oval Office to talk each day with the President and to drop in on his next-door neighbor Vice President Mondale. Ham and Fritz have meshed in a manner rare in White House history; each savors the guts of things rather than the trappings...
...right side must have been cleared for some other powerful function-perhaps the ancient voices. He remembered that Neurosurgeon Wilder Penfield had done some classic tests of the right side of the brain. "I have a key to the Princeton library, and I rushed down there at midnight," says Jaynes. "I got Penfield's article, and I almost fainted. There it was. When you stimulate certain parts of the right side, you get feelings of unreality, often music, and strange voices always ordering people to do something. Later the split-brain research came out, and I knew...
...with his opinion that nudging rats through mazes has little to do with psychology. To prepare the book-his first -Jaynes learned Greek, interviewed schizophrenics, argued etymology with rabbis, chewed and inhaled the smoke of laurel leaves (like the priestesses of Delphi), and once invaded a Princeton bar at midnight to apply a psychological test to startled drinkers. "I've been trying to solve the problem of consciousness all my life," he says. "Everything, including my reputation among specialists, is second to that...
...often worked until midnight, and home was more like a boardinghouse than a home," says Charlie. "We'd go to the Dolphins games, but Marabel thought I should do other things. She would schedule cultural activities on the afternoons of the games. Or when I was watching a good movie on television, she'd ask what else was on and switch the channel to the educational station...
Friends noticed the difference in the Morgans and asked for advice. Groups were formed, luncheons held. Several of the Miami Dolphins' wives tried the Morgan method. Result: well-publicized bliss. Says Charlie: "It snowballed. At night women would call every half-hour until midnight. I was about to go up the wall...