Word: touche
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Many others take the direct opposite view. I'm trying to stay in touch with both sides...
...other hand, performs a bewildering variety of far more subtle functions. It regulates man's heart and respiratory rates, controls his body temperature and tells him when to take his hands off hot stoves-all without his really being aware of that control. The brain keeps man in touch with the world around him by constantly sorting out the auditory, visual, olfactory, gustatory and tactile information his senses receive, processing it and enabling him to act upon it. It switches emotions on and off and regulates sexual drives...
...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 his nose with his finger or throw touchdown passes. But it is the cerebrum that distinguishes man from other animals. Fish have little or no cerebral tissue, nor do birds. Chimpanzees, man's closest animal relatives, have larger cerebrums than most other primates...
...lose one's memory-provided it was an honest one-is to lose touch with reality," she writes. "The present becomes meaningless when facts are 'processed,' and you serve them up to yourself and others in whatever guise happens to suit the moment...
...nonsectarian theist, held the prestigious post of organist at Manhattan's Riverside Church. In those days, his most conspicuous eccentricity was a fondness for walking the streets in a toreador's black cape-that and a rapidly emerging, unorthodox approach to Bach. "The word toccata means to touch, "he asserts, lapsing into his habit of speaking in italics. "My Bach is a redblooded, gutsy he-man Bach. His mind is universal; his heart is overwhelming, and the spirit that rides over the entire creativity of this enormous man is transcendental...