Word: veined
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...heart is the first organ that the cold blood reaches after it is dripped in through an arm vein, and the heart is sensitive to cold. Excess chilling can easily cause it to stop or go into useless twitching (fibrillation) from which the patient may never recover...
Water from the Faucet. Two afternoons each week, a Boston lawyer leaves his office early and goes home to bed. His rolled-up left sleeve discloses two plastic tubes permanently implanted in his forearm, one set in a vein, the other in an artery. Their outside ends are connected so that blood flows freely through them. A physician from Boston's Peter Bent Brigham Hospital takes the lawyer's blood pressure. In his bedroom, near the bathroom, is a waist-high tank of stainless steel equipped with an electric motor and pump, an array of tubes...
...which volunteers could be subjected to forces inducing anger and fear. The Columbus team decided to do it under hypnosis. They got nine volunteers, eight of them graduate students at Ohio State and one a hospital patient. Each one had to have a plastic tube threaded through an arm vein into the heart, and a needle positioned inside an artery in the arm. In a half-dark, quiet room, the subjects were hypnotized. For ten to 15 minutes at a time, they were given suggestions calculated to make them angry or fearful. They had 45 minutes in which to relax...
...most turgid and absurd in the long, confused eulogy of Jean Genet's scabrous Our Lady of the Flowers; Sartre described the book as an epic of masturbation, and Genet described Sartre in some of his favorite four-letter words. But Sartre has lately found a fresher vein; in his autobiographical The Words (TIME, Oct. 9) he reminisces simply and compellingly about his unhappy childhood, from which he eventually escaped into literature as others escape into religion, business, or the Foreign Legion...
Somewhat in the same vein, certain members of the "behaviorial sciences" may balk at being placed in the Science category since they emphasize humanistic or historical threads of their disciplines...