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Selected Letters of Rebecca West.(Review)
New Criterion
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May 1, 2000|
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Bonnie Kime Scott, editor Selected Letters of Rebecca West. Yale University Press, 544 pages, $35
Readers of The New Criterion will not need an introduction to Rebecca West. Yet even those familiar with her life and work will find startling new material in this superbly edited collection of her correspondence. Although West was always outspoken, her letters reveal a behind-the-scenes candor that provides insight into her reporting on the suffragists, the New Deal, Yugoslavia, the Nuremberg Trials, the Cold War, Communism, and much more. Devotees of her great novels, ...
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Pavlov's dogs and American education: for the past century, behavioral psychology and revolutionary socialism have combined to wreak educational and social havoc.(HISTORY--PAST AND PERSPECTIVE)
Magazine article from: The New American
; ...OMITTED] You might ask, what have Pavlov's dogs got to do with educating...children? More than you think. Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, the Russian experimental psychologist...surgical procedure right. How did Pavlov get his dogs? He relates: "At...
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Pavlov's Choice
Magazine article from: Dynamic Chiropractic
; ...newsletter. The Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov primarily saw himself as an investigator...of my science fiction tale, Pavlov's Cat. [Reference] References...Nobel Prize address delivered by Ivan Petrovich Pavlov in Stockholm, Sweden on December...
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FRUIT FLIES REMEMBER PUNGENT SMELLS MODERN SCIENTISTS FOLLOW PAVLOV TO DECIPHER MOLECULAR BASIS OF MEMORY IN DROSOPHILA, MAMMALS.
Magazine article from: BIOWORLD Today
; The Russian physiologist Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936) is revered as the father of conditional and...experiments focused on gastric-juice secretions in dogs. "Pavlov rang a bell whenever he offered meat to a dog as the unconditioned...
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What's in a name? For some, fame
Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times
; ...after a 1951 visit to the Soviet Union, where babies were delivered by the Pavlov method, named for Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. It involved the conditioned reflexes Pavlov used to get dogs to salivate by ringing a bell. That perfection is hardly...
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COLUMN: The Pavlovian dogs of education
News Wire article from: University Wire
; ...WIRE) STANFORD, Calif. -- Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, in the early 20th Century, carried...each dog was served her food, Pavlov would signal the event by a host...educational institutions bear to Pavlov's classical experiment and the...
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Remember When: BORN ON THIS DAY.(Features)
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; Byline: RAY MARSHALL 1849: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Russian physiologist, famous for his dog experiments. 1888: TS Eliot. US-born British poet and playwright. 1898: George...
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Anniversaries
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London
; ...Terry, actress, 1847; Enrico Caruso, operatic tenor, 1873; John Ernst Steinbeck, writer, 1902. Deaths: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov, physiologist, 1936; Lillian Gish, actress, 1993. On this day: the Labour Party was founded, 1900; the...
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Eminent lives in twentieth-century science & religion.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
Magazine article from: Reference & Research Book News
; ...are not incompatible. Perhaps best known among the scientists are Theodosius Dobzhansky, Julian Huxley, and Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. ([c]20082005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR)
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250 years of Russian science & technology. (chronology) (Illustration)
Magazine article from: Popular Science
; ...preserved 33,000-year-old woolly mammoth is found frozen in the Siberian Lena River Delta. 1902 Drool On Cue Ivan Petrovich Pavlov formulates the law of reinforcement; he demonstrates that a dog given food when a bell is rung will soon learn...
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Born on this day.
Newspaper article from: Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
; 1849: Ivan Petrovich Pavlov. Russian physiologist, famous for his dog experiments. 1888: T S Eliot (deceased). American-born, British poet and playwright...
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