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...things, one tiny mutineer bites him, and he throws a capful of water in her face. When Caron slaps him, he lets her have it too. When Trevor Howard informs him that the island has a hidden treasure-trove of good Scotch whisky, Grant starts pawing the turf like Pavlov's dog. His engaging brand of rough-house finally proves a point that was never seriously in doubt in the first place. Scrub the style and polish off Cary Grant, and what do you find? The real polish underneath...
...Instead of being tired, I was exhilarated," said one mother. "In the recovery room," bubbled another, "I wanted to sing and shout about my Pavlov baby." The 300 young women wearing diaper-shaped name tags who flocked around the huge, white-icinged cake in a suburban St. Louis garden last week all showed the same enthusiasm. All of them had given birth without general anesthetics in St. Mary's Hospital, where more (1,182) babies have been delivered by natural child birth than in any other hospital in the U.S. The fifth-birthday celebration of St. Mary...
Necessary Evil. None of this preparation prevents some exam takers from ludicrous answers. But in most cases the schools serve the bar examiners' seeming demand-what one Tennessee law dean calls "a Pavlov dog reaction." Says he: "It would be horrible if universities taught people how to pass law exams. We should teach people how to think and act like lawyers, not how to memorize cases." Many bar examiners are now steering toward that standard. But most law schools and bar examiners are still so far apart that the only way for law students to travel from...
...Miller, 72, multi-faceted biographer (Rasputin: The Holy Devil, 1928), historian (The Power and Secret of the Jesuits, 1930), novelist (The Night of Time, 1955) and student of psychology, philosophy and Communism, a Hungarian-born pharmacist's son who journeyed to Leningrad in 1923 where he studied in Pavlov's Institute of Experimental Medicine while observing Bolshevism's early years, then went to Vienna in 1927 to study with Freud for a year before joining a colony of Greek hermit monks, and in 1930 came to the U.S. where he settled, finally becoming a lecturer in sociology...
...expounds a bitter moral theorem. He is jailed and selected by the state authorities for Reclamation Treatment. Under drugs and with his eyelids clipped open, he is forced to watch an endless succession of films showing Japanese and Nazi tortures while Beethoven supplies the sound track. Then, conditioned like Pavlov's dog, Alex is released on society, guaranteed to vomit at the sight of violence or the sound of Beethoven. As one of his brainwashing group observes, "He ceases to be a wrongdoer. He ceases also to be a creature capable of moral choice." The experiment fails when Alex...