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...rewarded in a different way?his first general public recognition???when in 1945 the Ladies' Home Journal printed a piece about another kind of Skinner box, the so-called air crib (see box, page 51). By the time the Journal article was printed, Skinner had finished writing his second book, though he did not find a publisher for it until 1948. The work was Waiden Two, completed in seven weeks of impassioned creativity. Writing it, says Skinner, was "pretty obviously a venture in self-therapy in which I was struggling to reconcile two aspects of my own behavior, represented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Skinner's Utopia: Panacea, or Path to Hell? | 9/20/1971 | See Source »

...easily suppressed by the police. In fact the ringleader was just an old botanist of some slight renown, Professor Mihalusz. Scared pink as a geranium by the first police warning. Botanist Mihalusz fled Trencsen for parts unknown?some say Vienna. He must have written the letter which won Slovakia recognition???from Siam...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Botanist into President | 3/18/1929 | See Source »

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