(Louis) (1924-) US writer. His parodic novels include the picaresque sequence Crazy in Berlin 1958, Reinhart in Love 1961, Vital Parts 1970, and Reinhart’s Women 1981. Berger also parodied the Western in Little Big Man 1964 (filmed 1970), and the detective genre in Who is Teddy Villanova? 1977.
(1926-) English left-wing art critic and writer. In his best-known book, Ways of Seeing 1972, he valued art for social rather than esthetic reasons. He also attacked museums for preserving what is by nature ephemeral. His novels include A Painter of Our Time 1958 and G 1972 (Booker Prize).
(1873-1941) German psychiatrist and philosopher of science. He first described the human electroencephalogram (EEG) 1929. The differential patterns of cortical electrical activity he observed in alert and relaxed subjects led him to attempt the application of EEG to the study of psychophysical relationships and of conscious processes in general. He saw EEG as a key to the mind–body problem, a problem with which he was preoccupied for much of his life.
Latterly he proposed a confusing form of psychophysical parallelism, allowing for interaction between physical and mental domains through the transfer and transformation of physical and psychic energy respectively.
City in Missouri (USA); zip code 63014.