Word: stemming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...defined flowers in terms of infinity: a rose is a rose is a rose. Her description of St. Ignatius' vision of the Holy Ghost was "Pigeons on the grass, alas!" Wit, whimsy, sly associations of sound were Gertrude Stem's forte; when she got heavy or theoretical, she was unreadable. It is a truism of the Lost Generation that she influenced Hemingway's style crucially. He took her schematic use of sound patterns and transmogrified it into the spare, stylized prose that became the most pervasive literary parlance of the century. For all her celebrity...
...changes which will affect Harvard in the next three weeks of Eastern Intercollegiate Skiing races is team scoring. No longer is the combined performance of the top three finishers of each team to count. No longer will coach Peter Carter be yelling at his fifth man, "Snowplow! Sideslip! Stem! Just stand up! If you race I'll kill you!" after two more daring Harvards have already levelled spectators and explored the woods...
Perhaps the people will soon see, says the EPA'S Russell Train, that "our energy and our environmental ills both stem from essentially the same source: the patterns of growth and development that waste our energy resources just as surely and shamefully as they lay waste to our natural environment." If the energy shortage drives that lesson home, it will have accomplished more for man's relation to nature than all the laws that are now under attack...
Others, too, are interested in solving that mystery. Robert Galambos, 59, a professor of neurosciences at the University of California at San Diego, is at tempting to track auditory impulses from the ear, through the brain stem and into the cortex. He is studying several brain-wave patterns, including what is called the "Aha wave," which the brain generates when it finds what it is looking...
Growing out of the spinal cord like the crown of a tree out of its trunk, the brain has several major components (see diagram page 52). The limbic system, an area that surrounds the head of the brain stem and includes such structures as the amygdala, part of the thalamus, hypothalamus and hippocampus, regulates the emotions. The pituitary, which hangs down from the brain stem like an olive from the tree, produces the hormones that influence growth and development. The cerebellum, a fist-sized structure at the rear of the brain that controls movements and coordination, enables man to touch...