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...ahead, then Tom, why don't you just get it over with, go ahead and touch it and see if it feels like wool...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Hour of Tom Wolfe Chic-er Than Thou | 12/10/1970 | See Source »

...women who are too busy studying the brain to bother with sorting out such semantic eels. The big conceptual problem has been to come up with a model, or analogue, that will explain the dynamics of learning and memory. Although there are minds that warp and others that gather wool, Lord Sherrington's definition of the brain as an "enchanted loom" is more poetic than precise. The electronic computer at first seems promising. Unhappily, though the brain generates and can be prodded by electrical impulses, the most sophisticated cybernetic device is still a primitive instrument when compared with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Everything You Always Wanted To Know About the Brain | 11/30/1970 | See Source »

...Pull No Wool. Another encouraging development is the effective use of all-black or white-black "mod squad" patrols in the ghetto­as in New York and Detroit. But New York's Eldridge Waith was chastised by the Patrolmen's Benevolent Association for allowing himself to be frisked when he entered a church held by the Puerto Rican Young Lords, though by doing so Waith managed to help defuse a potentially dangerous situation. "We are not saying we are going to work with them," Waith notes, "but there's no doubt that in terms...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Anguish of Blacks in Blue | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...nearly eight years as a New York City cop and is now a student at Harvard Law School. Says Grimes: "It's really a matter of communication." If black citizens "know where your heart is and that you really want to talk to them and not pull some wool over their eyes, then there's no problem." Grimes, who has written a master's thesis on "The Black Man and Law Enforcement," argues that assignment to black districts should be voluntary duty for the best-trained officers, who would get extra pay. "The black officer must...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Anguish of Blacks in Blue | 11/23/1970 | See Source »

...first time I saw Erich Segal was in the courtyard outside of Yale's Stiles College, where he is a Fellow. It was a passing view: he streaked by in track gear, wearing a wool cap and a blue plastic vest with orange reflecting panels...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: For Segal, Harvard-Yale Game Is Annual 'Schizophrenia Time' | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

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