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...rubella makes that difficult. The disease can also cause mental retardation and slight brain damage. In a child's first year or two, the symptoms of both ailments are similar to those of deafness: the child fails to associate sounds with their sources and respond directly to external stimuli. He will also not learn to talk on schedule. But simple tests by doctors can usually discover whether the cause of such symptoms is deafness, and there is now a new tool for more difficult diagnoses, a computerized electroencephalogram. Electrodes are taped to the infant's head to measure...
...ponderous and heavy-handed when characterizing his social environment. Antonioni sketches his mod London in black-and-white values, as entirely worthless. He depicts the young people at the rock-and-roll club and the pot party as incapable of individual emotional reaction, responding only in groups to escapist stimuli and the newest hip symbols (the electric guitar handle). This damning of a culture en masse is suspect; in setting his hero against a background of complete sterility, Antonioni has taken the easy way out, avoiding the challenge of creating a more perceptive analysis of the generation with which...
...college teacher here, after having taught elsewhere, I am impressed by two qualities in New Yorkers. They are no more gifted-or less ignorant-than their peers elsewhere; yet they are certain that they must be. And they lead lives of exposure to abnormal and unremitting stimuli, against which their defense is a shell of aggressive, blase behavior. What catches their attention and wins their approval must be more aggressive, more shocking, more violent, but by no means necessarily more worthy, than this constant hyper-level of stimuli...
...learning. The Digest later published the first complete account of the original study of memory transfer in a higher animal, the rat. It also reported the first study of behavioral changes in plants-experiments in which the tropical mimosa was actually "taught" to change its response to specific stimuli...
...after just eight months on the streets. "We are in favor of evolution, not revolution," says Managing Editor Allan Katzman, 29, a poet with a bachelor's degree in philosophy from the City College of New York. "We hope to transform the middle class by internal and external stimuli, by means of media and LSD." Though EVO is obsessed with LSD, Katzman still finds generous space for an avant-garde international survey of the arts called "Voyeurama," a rambling column by John Wilcock (an original staffer on the now middle-aged Village Voice), and a presumably popular feature called...