Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...late great Stanislavsky, who taught his pupils to "react" as everything from mad monks to coffee percolators, might have shuddered at such a theory of acting, but for Wayne, it works. "Sometimes they call it corn," he admits with a grin, "but I've always felt that if a scene is handled with simplicity-and I don't mean simple -it'll be good...
...life are at least as old as Franz Kafka and his stories of Central European decay (TIME, April 28, 1947). Let It Come Down shows the point such novels have reached in the last decade or two. In the Kafka world, the victim-hero was still able to react to his miseries with horror. In the Bowles world, the victim-hero is both amoral and numb. He will commit any crime in order to give himself the feeling of having "a place in the world, a definite status, a precise relationship with the rest...
...doctors soon found that the drug seemed to produce a minor crisis of its own: usually, a rise in temperature, often accompanied by muscle pains or cramps. None of these effects was lasting; in fact, the drug reaction seemed to be essential to successful treatment. If patients did not react to small doses, they had to have bigger doses. Then, nearly always within three days, they started to get better far more quickly than others, similarly ill, who got no Pyromen...
...impetus to development of electronic-control apparatus for automatic factories. Perhaps the most exciting possibility is in the rapidly growing field of electronic computers. Transistors can be built, theoretically, almost as small as the neurons (nerve cells) that serve as relays in the human brain, and they react several thousand times faster. A "brain" built with transistors instead of vacuum tubes might out-calculate a regiment of Einsteins and still fit in the room where Einstein does his thinking...
...cortisone on ulcer patients, they reasoned, revealed a second pathway by which emotional stress reaches the stomach: through the pituitary and adrenal glands and their hormones. To test their theory, they gave ACTH to patients whose vagus nerve had been cut, and found that it made their poor stomachs react just as if the vagus nerve had been intact, i.e., the stomachs became overactive, secreted too much of the digestive juices. One patient began to have ulcer pains; at that point, the researchers had to stop...