Word: pavlovic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pavlov Route. Man's fate, as Condon sees it, is to work hard, sacrifice much, lead an intelligent, just and fruitful life, and then show up at the Last Judgment minus his pants. Sooner or "later, like the blind beggars toppling after their blind leader in Bruegel's chillingly ironic painting, all the author's characters stumble into the ditch of mortality. Satirist Condon is not afraid to set up outrageously improbable situations to achieve his effects. In his first novel, The Oldest Confession (1958), an Achilles among criminals was brought to heel while trying to hijack...
Died. Konstantin Mikhailovich Bykov, 73, director of the I. P. Pavlov Institute of Physiology in Leningrad, who, following the lead of his teacher, Pavlov, rejected Freud as the key to understanding human behavior; in Leningrad...
...Cannon's career took the couple all over the world. During her travels, Mrs. Cannon became enamoured with Peking's Temple of Heaven ("some things no amount of praise will spoil"), acquired two Russian icons by Italian artists, made friends with eminent scientists of myriad nationalities, including Russia's Pavlov. She swears that her foreign languages remain abysmal, that she never bothers with grammar. Asked whether she lectured to Cambridge on return, she answered, "Oh yes. I afflicted everybody...
Died. John Broadus Watson, 80, pioneer psychologist ("behaviorism") and longtime (1924-46) advertising executive (J. Walter Thompson Co., William Esty & Co.); after long illness; in Manhattan. Borrowing from the work of Russian Physiologist Ivan Pavlov, Watson developed a theory that man's personality is merely a mass of conditioned reflexes, later turned his academic concept to cash as he mapped out early advertising campaigns (for Pond's Cold Cream) that exploited man's desire for personal prestige...
...country where history often repeats itself because its citizens react, like Pavlov's dogs, to bells rung by historical parallels, the Presidency of the Fifth Republic might well travel the same road as the Presidency of the Third...