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Itard's plan was to lead Victor into the world of ideas through the realm of his senses--to make him sensitive to the subtle stimuli of a controlled environment. After modifying Victor's sense of touch with daily baths and focusing his wandering gaze, Itard sought to teach him the connection between the look and feel of objects and their corresponding names. But even at this early stage Itard ran aground. Victor's senses responded only when food was involved: he turned to the sound of walnut being cracked but remained unflinching in the face of a deafening blast...
...University of California Medical Center, porn is needed to bring sexual pleasure to the losers in the sexual game?the shy, the unattractive, the crippled. "Are you," he asks, "to deny these victims of our socialization process the satisfaction they might enjoy from looking at these kinds of stimuli...
...working class itself to give it a helping hand instead of destroying it. This policy did not receive much substantial embodiment by the government until Chancellor of the Exchequer Denis Healey's budget proposals. Healey proposed slashing public expenditure on welfare, increasing government aid to industry and restoring economic stimuli to the limping Envlish economy. The Bank of England helpfully underscored the seriousness of the situation last week by allowing the pound sterling to fall below the $2 level for the first time in recorded history...
...worker for Charles Palantine (Leonard Harris). This, Scorsese implies, is the other, the dominant stratum of society. Betsy is confident, manipulative, and vapid--like the low-lifers, she registers no emotions, but unlike them, she is not motivated by fear. Rather, it is her job to calculate the effect stimuli will have on "the electorate" and to organize the stimuli in a way that will best promote her product. "After a while, everyone becomes his job," warns the Wizard, and Betsy has clearly completed the evolution. She is an ice-queen (Shepherd seems incapable of playing anything else), self-possessed...
...elements in a ruling of life or death. Today, however, most doctors place at least as much importance on the condition of the brain. They have generally accepted the criteria suggested in 1968 by researchers at Harvard University: no spontaneous respiration, no reflexive response to external stimuli or to pain, no brain activity showing on an EEG checked first by one observer then again by another 24 hours later. If these criteria hold, most doctors then assume that even if machines are keeping the patient alive, his brain is dead-and so is he. "Brain death" is currently the legal...