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...they believe that if any part of the physical brain is damaged or destroyed, the mind is damaged beyond repair. Lobotomy, argued Oserezski, damages the high brain centers and turns a human being into a vegetable. He quoted a Soviet colleague as saying that it "makes idiots out of madmen." He also put it in ideological terms: "By performing a lobotomy, the surgeon is guilty of propagating a therapeutic nihilism...
...morning of execution, five armed warders and an African priest entered the death cell. The murderers chucked them out and, screaming like madmen, attacked the cell walls with bleeding hands and feet. After two hours' battering, the eight frightened convicted men burst out on to the fairway. They found themselves in the middle of a square of 100 armed policemen, with rifles at the ready...
...police were inundated by Arab rioters. "They appeared as if by magic," said one of the eight policemen on duty, "out of the ground, from holes in the wall. It was unbelievable. One minute the street was deserted. The next minute it was filled with a horde of madmen screaming for blood." The police fired at short range killing some 20 Arabs...
...olive branch disappeared and out came the stick. Unlike the Russians, Ehrenburg told a cheering audience of some 2,000, the Americans are led by "a little group of madmen dreaming of a new war ... If this handful of criminals decides to impose the American way of life [on the world] by force of arms, that way of life will collapse like a pack of cards...
...high, the painting reflects the opulent grandeur of 16th century Venice rather than the hardship of the Holy Family's flight. The Inquisition once accused Veronese of making his religious pictures too worldly and "modern." "We painters," he replied, "take, the same liberties as poets and madmen...