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...Using the radioimmunoassay techniques for which she won her prize, she and a co-worker at The Bronx, N.Y., Veterans Administration Hospital found a possible link between obesity and the shortage of a brain chemical. Grossly fat mice seem to have smaller amounts of the hormone cholecystokinin than their skinner littermates. In other words, the hormone may be suppressing rodent appetites. Tentative though those findings were, Yalow discussed them with the press. She had been uncomfortable ever since...
Unfortunately, as confused freshmen quickly discover, acceptance to Harvard does not automatically mean one will soon be calling Dr. Robert Coles "Bob," and turning down invitations to Sunday brunch with Pierce Professor of Psychology Emeritus B.F. Skinner...
Susan (Melanie Mayron) is a New York Jewish girl paying her dues as a photographer on the bar mitzvah and wedding circuit while waiting to hit the big-time. Her roommate and closest friend, Ann (played rather woodenly by Anita Skinner) is an aspiring poet who leaves Susan to get married. Susan painfully adjusts to living alone, her career advances sporadically, and after floundering awkwardly through two romantic attempts, she finally settles down comfortably in love...
WEILL'S APPARENT PURPOSE is to focus on the friendship of the two women, but she shifts to a study of Susan. While it is Mayron's performance which makes Susan such an attractive and humorous character, not all the problems with the character of Ann stem from Skinner's weak performance. Ann hovers in stereotypically suburban settings, seeming not only distant from Susan, but from the camera as well. One finds her cold and unsympathetic, and even the original friendship seems implausible at times...
This demonstration of how philosophy informs "the whole life of humanity" is no academic exercise. Barrett is convinced that the history of ideas foreshadows the fate of the Western world. His vision of the future, in both its American and Russian versions-Skinner's programmed Utopia vs. the triumph of Soviet totalitarianism-sometimes sounds like a science-fiction scenario. A former Marxist, Barrett shares with other victims of the god that failed a dramatic anxiety about the menace of Communism...