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...this kind of thinking that influenced Watson. Drawing, too, on the work of Pavlov, he repudiated the subjective concepts of mind and emotion and described human behavior as a succession of physical reflex responses to stimuli coming from the environment. It was the environment alone, he felt, that determined what a man is: "Give me a dozen healthy infants," he wrote in 1925, "and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select?doctor, lawyer, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities." The goal...
...time when reflex anti-Communism is being replaced by reflex appeasement, it is heartening to learn of Senator Jackson's improving presidential prospects [Aug. 16]. He is nearly alone among likely Democratic candidates in supporting a strong policy of military aid to pur allies and a strong U.S. military force in the world. However, I believe it is wrong to say that this makes him anathema to the Democratic Party's young. I am a young Democrat (20 years old and just registered yesterday), and I see a substantial base of support for Senator Jackson's ideals...
...Boys. Margaret originally intended to become a biologist, and took up photography only in order to help pay for her last year at Cornell. Using a secondhand lea Reflex with a cracked lens that her mother had bought for $20, she shot campus scenes and sold them to students. Her early reputation was made in the unlikely field of industrial photography. Where others saw only grime, Bourke-White saw beauty; her camera could find drama and action in a factory. All the major pictures in FORTUNE'S first issue were by Bourke-White...
Table tennis, that vicious art of demolishing an opponent with reflex action, deadly patience and a featherweight celluloid ball, had its murky origins in the late 19th century. The game seems to have been invented by an American or an Englishman: it was originally promoted in Britain and the U.S. by toy and game companies, under the patented name Ping Pong. As a competitive sport, it has seldom been taken seriously in this country, and today it is usually relegated to suburban basements, where sons can wreak Oedipal vengeance on their panting middle-aged fathers...
...were passed out together with ballots at lunch and dinner yesterday at Dunster. Roger Rosenblatt, Master of Dunster House, said, "I was disappointed at the outcome of the voting but not at the procedure. Both sides of the issue were presented and people did not vote purely out of reflex...