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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...
...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...
...better-paying job on the Los Angeles Times (TIME, Jan. 31). Although the Post passed over a field of 50 domestic applicants to hire Oliphant, the choice had a certain inevitability. His draftsmanship bears comparison to Conrad's, and he has the same flair for tapping the comic vein. To make sure that the Post got his point, Oliphant, who had read of Conrad's resignation in TIME, wasted no time bidding for the job, sending along samples of his work from the Adelaide Advertiser...