Word: touched
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Senses No. 6 through No. 9 are found easily by breaking down the sense of touch into five separate senses: "crude" touch, pressure, heat, cold and pain. (Some authorities list four: "true" touch, temperature, superficial pain and deep pain.) Says Author David W. Foerster, a third-year medical student (University of Oklahoma) who has made a special study of the subject: "Ordinarily, when we feel an object, we bring into play three or four of these senses simultaneously . . . When we touch a hot stove, we experience heat, pain, crude touch and perhaps pressure...
...breakdown of touch is less a matter of semantics than of anatomy: each of these senses, says Foerster, "has its own receptor cells to receive impressions of the outside world, and its own nerve pathways...
...like a single object -the skin of the back has little two-point discrimination, and may need to have the compass spread three or four inches. But the hand can distinguish the two points when they are but a fraction of an inch apart-and there the senses of touch will also distinguish between the sharp steel and the duller pencil point...
...routine with just the proper bit of stylization, and wondrous to say, she has a very fine voice. Elizabeth MacNeil, play the title role of Patience, a much-sought-after milkmaid, sings well and liltingly, but her acting seems the weakest among the principals. Perhaps this is just a touch of opening-night fever. Also, she could have been more attractively costumed. Merle Moses, Carol White and Nancy Ryan, among the "lovesick maidens," sing charmingly, dance when required, and smile at the proper moments...
...night on his floor. He has bought her drinks, and "a man who'd let a young girl get stocious drunk is almost as bad as a fornicator.'' Soon, the school knows, and the writing is on the jakes wall for Dev. Yet-most horrible touch of all-Dev is forgiven, and it is put about that "nothing" has happened. "If it wasn't so pitiful, it would be funny," says Una in an exact summary of the book itself. It is Dev's tragedy to remain a man among boys and a boy among...