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...competent, middleman journalists. Mary Harrington Hall, a former science writer who was one of the first staffers hired by Charney, comes closest. But even when she tries to inject lightness and broader explanation into her tape-recorded interviews with the likes of Existentialist-Psychotherapist Rollo May and Harvard Behaviorist B. F. Skinner, the transcribed result more often than not sounds like interruptions...
...excitement, and only secondarily for the just-maybe chance of winning some money. As that great prophet of potluck, Nick the Greek, once said: "The next-best thing to playing and winning is playing and losing. The main thing is the play." But the incentives are hard to separate. Behaviorist psychologists believe that what keeps people gambling is "intermittent reinforcement"-a regular expectation of winning. Says Harvard's B. F. Skinner: "I could arrange for a rat, pigeon or monkey to get hooked on gambling simply by providing a certain schedule of rewards or payoffs...
...know I run the risk of heresy, but may I ask Mr. T. C. Horne what the so-called behaviorist school of political science has to offer to human learning...
...true, however, that Harvard's weakness in the behavioral field is often exaggerated, partly because of the Government Department's undeniable strength in the more traditional areas. And many members of the Department--even those whose intellectual orientation is anti-behaviorist--are concerned with correcting the imbalance. The last three or four tenured appointments have been in this area, and a taste of empirical knowledge can had in the courses of Banfield, Wilson, Huntington, and a few others...
Critics should mean what they say, and say what they mean. They are reported to say that the Harvard department of Linguistics is "not distinguished." The evidence is that its international reputation is of the highest; that it is distinguished by its independence of the behaviorist school of linguistics which dictates the "party" line in other American universities; that it is distinguished by its refusal to divorce linguistics from other subjects, to languish undernourished; that it is distinguished by the lead that it has taken in Mathematical Linguistics...