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Contrary to popular opinion, said Dr. Goldstein to his colleagues last week, the brain does not grasp simple, single objects first, but understands things only as parts of larger patterns. Many patients suffering from injuries of the cortex (most highly complex section of the brain) cannot use or understand any isolated words, symbols or objects. For example, certain patients who have brain injuries, but who appear normal in their behavior, when handed a knife, are unable to give it a name. But when handed a knife with a potato, they promptly cry: "That's a potato peeler...
...engineers had proved, in telecasting the six-day bike race at Manhattan's Madison Square Garden, that television could be transmitted over ordinary telephone wire. Engineers had considered coaxial cable, a copper wire threaded through separators inside a copper tube, the only practical ground conductor for the complex television signal. Since coaxial cable costs $5,000 a mile, prospects of a television network had seemed dim and distant...
...depressing, and almost everyone has a touch of sadism or masochism in him. At any rate, John Tunis' classic debunk of things at Harvard several years ago was able to provide Harvard men with something of a thrill. In addition, it was enough to give them an acute inferiority complex enough to convince them that they went out with clay pipes instead of silver spoons. Most Harvard graduates, infers Mr. Tunis, must have the fate of Broadway's current Harvard man-the spectacular specimen in "The Priterose Path...
...courses only to the extent that good teaching in one division implies good teaching in the other. We think Mr. Bunde's conclusions bear usually a likeness to truth: many of his comments seem reasonable, though marred by a lack of ability to weigh merits in a difficult and complex field against weakness, by a lack of the tolerance and appreciation which would make for a truer kind of truth than his sometimes thin reasoning confidently attains...
After postulating that facial characteristics set the Jews apart, that they are "a people representing the supersophisticated product of intensive selection and long-continued evolution," Dr. Hooton proceeds to embark upon "a discussion which will arouse the ire of many an idealistic democrat with an inferiority complex and of all scientists who labor under the delusion that only negative findings are sound." Says...