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Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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V.S. Ramachandran, the neurologist famous for describing phantom limbs, also studied people with anosognosia for left-side hemiplegia (translated out of moon language: people whose left sides were paralyzed but they didn t know it). The tests he performed on these individuals make it clear that anosognosiacs aren t lying or sublimating their knowledge of their paralysis they genuinely have no idea that they re impaired.
When asked to pick up a tray full of champagne flutes, for example, anosognosiac hemiplegics would pick it up from one end, upsetting the tray and breaking all the glassware; of course, people who know they only have use of one hand will pick up a loaded tray from a middle balancing point. Another test involved offering a small prize (say, a small box of candy) for performing a one-handed task, and a larger one (a big box) for a task requiring two hands for instance, tying a shoelace. Paralyzed people who knew they were paralyzed w
âJustice Rising: Robert Kennedyâs America in Black and Whiteââ by Patricia Sullivan. Harvard University Press. 515 pages. $39.95
Robert F. Kennedy âhad a remarkable memory,â screenwriter Budd Schulberg recalled, âas well as a unique capacity for indignation.â Kennedy was not âthe last of the great liberals,â Herbert Lopez, an African American activist acknowledged, but on racial issues he was âthe last of the great believables.â
As he accompanied Kennedy through Black and Latino neighborhoods in Los Angeles during the 1968 Democratic presidential primary, John Lewis concluded that the outpouring of emotion for the candidate âwas love. It was adoration. People, especially young people, just mobbed us, climbing over cars, trying to get closeâ to him.