Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Just Another Intellectual. Collier's japes with apes begin with Alfred Fatigay, a tired African mission schoolmaster who leaves Boboma on the Upper Congo to return to England and marry his fiancée Amy, an intellectual sort of girl. For company he takes with him "a well-grown, sagacious, fine specimen" of a chimpanzee named Emily. All goes very well for a while ("In England the Primate takes precedence of all but Royal Dukes"). But Emily, no ordinary chimp, knows how to read. She takes a course in the British Museum, and she thinks she had better start...
...Mother! Don't!" Gradually the Jane (third) side of her personality got the upper hand and fell in love with an engineer named Earl Lancaster. But she was still subject to unpredictable changes in personality. The psychiatrists, who by now had devoured the technical books on Jekyll-and-Hyde phenomena and had consulted colleagues across the country, were still baffled in their effort to find the underlying cause in this case. One day their patient, then in her Jane phase, gave them a strong clue. Dr. Thigpen asked to speak to Eve White. As the two doctors describe...
...There have been some who flatly denied the fundaments of gregariousness, like Thoreau who "never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude." Yet, once again this week, the annual Experiment compels most clean-living Harvardmen to engage, if only superficially, in the qualitative analysis of their perspective upper-bunkers...
...boys and girls, is universally associated with an upset hormone balance (male over female hormones) during puberty. (Eunuchs seldom or never have acne.) There is not a shred of evidence for the common belief that acne is a result of masturbation. For some unknown reason, the face, chest and upper back are especially susceptible. There the tiny sebaceous glands, which are designed to secrete fats to oil the skin, become clogged with an abnormally waxy form of these fats. Blackheads and pimples form over the shutdown pores; there may also be pustules, but infection is believed to be the result...
...professors in the social sciences and humanities make an effort to educate scientists in their disciplines, so should the scientists respond by accepting their responsibility to the non-scientist. Even if this would require some reduction in courses for concentrators the scientists should be willing to teach more upper level Nat Sci courses, for at this time by their inadequate offering they shirk a significant duty...