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Convinced that a "thread" somewhere in the human body linked vomiting with many types of illness, Dr. Borison and Columbia University's Dr. S. C. Wang determined, in 1953, the existence of a vomiting control center and a trigger zone in the brain stem. By removing the trigger zone from the brains of dogs and cats, Dr. Borison and his research staff have been able to prevent vomiting that ordinarily follows the injection of certain chemicals into the blood stream...
...disciple of Adams rather than Gibbon, Medievalist Allan Temko, 31, has put his love and knowledge of the Cathedral of Notre-Dame into an astute and eloquent book that merits shelfroom with Adams' famed Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres. But while Adams sought out only the major thread of medieval unity, Author Temko weaves a tapestry of multiplicity-within-unity. Along with the rising cathedral walls, he traces the rise of the Capetian monarchs to rule Paris, the rise of Paris to rule France, the rise of French Gothic to rule an age. "The Church clothes her stones...
...make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands." ¶"I have just finished Faulkner's Sanctuary, and I think I have understood all the pornographic part, corn cob, etc ... I found myself also absorbed in the story as a whole, without exactly following the thread of it, which it would have taken me a second reading to disentangle . . . Like all these recent writers, the author is too lazy and self-indulgent, and throws off what comes to him in a sort of dream, expecting the devoted reader to run about after him, sniffing...
Assembling the impressive names, whose polished earlier works have established them as some of our best essayists, has apparently left little chance for continuity. Probably the only consistent feature of the Review is the intimate style which each of the thirteen contributors has used. There is no continuous thread, because they are all vitally interested in their own subjects which cover a vast area. Each, naturally, seems enthusiastic to expound on his own field, whether he approaches it casually or professionally...
...whirling panorama of slant hatted insurance salesmen, cow-like women, bull-like men, and smiling madmen, Harington weaves a crazy pattern of the present. His starting thread is Hal Hingham, an agent of Arcadia Life, afraid of sales prospects, and frightened of his bulbous, seductive landiady. The image of Hingham the failure is obvious: "The broken, abandoned pencil-sharpener had depressed him. It reminded him of himself. People didn't care how they treated mass-produced equipment." He was a nobody in world that seemed complex and cruel. Even at childhood his father appeared one day only long enough...