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Flotsam & Jetsam. On the other hand, the Freeman often shouts at its enemies in the same shrill tones it damns the left for using. In defending Senator McCarthy, for example, it calls his critics "mad" people who, like Pavlov's dogs, "foam" at the mouth every time his name is mentioned. It extravagantly hails John T. Flynn (The Road Ahead, While You Slept) as the "keenest journalist of our day," although many rightists think Flynn's hatred of Franklin Roosevelt has blinded his once sharp reporter's eye. The Freeman itself is often so blinded...
Skinner didn't intend to be a psychologist. At Hamilton College he majored in English literature, "But I had a letdown when I discovered that a novelist doesn't really understand behavior, even though he can duplicate it. A biology professor got me interested in Pavlov." Skinner did graduate work in psychology at Harvard in 1928. In 1947 he was back as the William James Lecturer, and the next year he received his appointment...
...reply, Soviet Delegate Alexei P. Pavlov snapped a grim warning to all Western newsmen. Oatis' post, said he, "was only an alibi for his true activities." Warned Pavlov: "If you start sending spies, you must remember that [they] will get what they deserve, and many of them will envy those whose fate is only a prison sentence . . . The Soviet Union and the People's Democracies are not one of your colonies, and if you stretch your paws there, we shall hack them...
...drive against the influences of "bourgeols psychiatry" in Soviet scientific circles, reported in dispatches from Moscow this week, was foreshadowed last summer in a report by two psychologists at the University's Russian Research Center. The new drive favored the theories of Ivan Pavlov...
...present glorification of Pavlov," London states, "has reached incredible proportions..." He praises Pavlov as an "astounding experimentalist" and "the creator of a new methodology" for his work in studying the conditioned reflex, but says his more advanced theories excite only historical interest...