Word: nervous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...such potential dimensions. Having gotten Around the World, he is now sitting on top of it. His plans? Says the man who is pushing 50 as if he intends to knock it over: "As soon as the excitement dies down, I'm going to have a nervous breakdown. I worked for it, I owe it to myself and nobody is going to deprive...
...elegante. Other expressionists like Kollowitz and Kokoschka remained true to the original inspiration. "Woman with Dead Child" is Kollowitz at her best struggling with the broad rhythms of suffering. Unfortunately the "Portrait of Else Heims" in its cartoon-like simplicity doesn't do justice to the finer, more nervous insight of Kokoschka...
Injected Signals. "The logical extension of electroencephalographic research," said Schafer, "may result in the formation of another hybrid science, biocontrol. The biophysicist has measured and recorded the electrical activity of the central nervous system, and shown that neural [nerve] currents control many of our mental and muscular activities. The electronic-control scientist has taught us that minute electrical signals, properly amplified, may be used for the control of airplanes, guided missiles and machine tools...
...quite logical to believe that these two sciences will merge. Biocontrol may be denned as the control of physical movements, mental processes, emotional reactions and apparent sensory perceptions . . by means of bioelectrical signals which are transmitted and injected into the central nervous system of the subject...
...head . . . changes his sense of balance, and he leans to one side . . . Other experimenters have shown that rats and dogs may be made to feel hungry just after eating, or afraid when they had nothing to fear, simply by injecting the appropriate neural currents into the central nervous system of the animal...