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Coal-black, naked, a young African Negress converted to Christianity by a female missionary sets out through the jungle to look for God. She meets the God of Genesis, the God of Job, Ecclesiastes. Micah, Pavlov, a Roman soldier, Christ, St. Peter and a procession of churches, a caravan of intellectuals, Mohammed, an imagemaker, Voltaire, and finally Shaw. Naive but nobody's fool, the black girl questions everyone she meets but finds no satisfactory answers. The Gods of Genesis and Job enrage her and she attacks them with her knobkerry (that and a Bible are her only impedimenta). Christ...
Whether Professor Sherrington or Russia's Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1904 Nobel Laureate in Medicine) is the world's greatest physiologist is one of those useless points scholars like to discuss. Neurologists argue for Professor Sherrington. Harvard's Harvey Gushing defers to him, his laboratory at Oxford is a shrine. Everyone who meets him, who hears his quiet elucidation of the abstruse, becomes his friend. His researches laid the foundations of our present knowledge of reflex actions. His Integrative Action of the Nervous System is practically an engineering manual of the body's telegraph system. When...
Professor Boris Peter Babkin, 55, physiologist, onetime assistant of famed Russian Ivan Pavlov (conditioned reflexes), and himself an investigator of gastric secretions...
Professor Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, famed Russian physiologist, author of Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes, refused an official celebration of his 80th birthday at Leningrad. Reason: Physiologist Pavlov is no friend of Communism. Said he, "I deplore the destruction of cultural values by illiterate Communists." Mindful that upon his research rests the behavioristic "Science of Marxism" and Marxian doctrine, the Soviet tolerates his slaps gently and without reproach, babies him. Birthday gifts from the Soviet to him include $50,000 endowment of his laboratory and an assurance that traffic would be diverted from the street near it so as not to disturb...
...Pavlov. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov's ven- erable appearance at Yale's International Psychological Congress was no anticlimax to his visit at Harvard's International Physiological Congress (TIME, Sept. 2). The psychologists showed the old gentleman great respect. Though they knew of him only at second hand (through the Behaviorists), though he spoke in Russian and in highly technical terms on "A Brief Sketch of the Highest Nervous Activity," they applauded him tremendously before and after he spoke. He said that he felt justified in separating certain reflexes, as food, sex, defense, from the rest of nervous activity...