Word: personal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...remarkable thing about walkers is their deceptively fast speed-8 m.p.h.-about twice as fast as the average person's brisk walk, and two-thirds as fast as the best men run a mile. The trick is to whip up a hot pace while keeping the toe of one foot on the ground until the other heel hits (both feet cannot be off the ground simultaneously...
...able to measure the way the brain uses up its chief sources of energy: oxygen and glucose. Already he has demonstrated that unconscious patients use only half the normal amount of oxygen and glucose, that schizophrenics use as much oxygen for their irrational thinking as a sane person does for normal thinking...
...adore humanity!" cried the visiting Princess Irene of Greece to a Manhattan interviewer. "I think everybody is interesting . . . Just people I adore. I have never met a stupid person in my life...
Revolt by Half. All of Kafka's anxieties were crystallized in his relationship to his stolid and conventional middle-class father, who exerted "the bewildering effect that all tyrants have whose might is founded not on reason, but on their own person." The elder Kafka thrust all his massive sarcasm and scorn on his son in order to turn him into a successful businessman. Had he merely rebelled and broken from his father, Kafka might have gained endurance and maturity. His tragedy was that he could neither completely acquiesce nor completely rebel...
...announced yesterday that its representatives in Berlin, Munich, Nurnberg, and Hoechst, Germany and in Paris, Vienna, Stockholm, London, and Oxford will seek rooms for any American tourist who writes or calls in person...