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...your right is a laboratory filled with behavioral science's elite corps of experimental organisms. There they coo and peek in their numbered lofts, the proud and nameless pigeon menagerie that once controlled and were controlled by B.F. Skinner. At one time, some of these birds played ping pong in Skinner boxes. Some spend time dancing together--also in boxes. Some were conditioned to hobble around in figure eights. Others were lucky enough to get out of the smelly lab and travel in what seemed to be outer space. During World War II, Skinner trained them to guide missles...
...most of the survivors are about either masochism or hair fetishism or both. But he did produce one of the great sexual images of the 18th century with The Night mare (1781). The painting ought not to work. It is too literal, too obvious. Its spectral horse with Ping Pong ball eyes puffs and blows through a fold in the cur tain, and the goblin looks like an irri table Irish dwarf. It is, in fact, the kind of painting that seems merely an aggressive pantomime in a post-psychological culture like ours. Yet nearly 200 years after...
...editor of the Northern Echo in 1961, was named managing editor of the Sunday Times in 1966 and editor in 1967. Short and slight, he still speaks with flat Yorkshire vowels and spends his few hours out of the Sunday Times office toiling almost obsessively at squash, skiing, Ping Pong and a book on photojournalism. He also serves as an occasional panelist on a television quiz show titled, aptly enough, Call My Bluff. Evans has long argued that British journalism should end its preoccupation with the elegant expression of opinion and tackle more American-style investigative reporting. "The growing power...
...massive, slate-gray apartment complex; work a 48-hour week; spend his Sunday picnicking in one of China's shady parks; pass his evenings in a workers' cultural palace watching a variety show (full of revolutionary songs and skits), learning a musical instrument, or playing Ping-Pong...
Given the champ's current reputation, there is a crocodilian element to his plaint, "I am probably better known in Singapore than in the United States." It is that very anonymity that allows him to pursue his chosen field. Recently, in his own Manhattan Ping Pong parlor, Reisman greeted a player who had journeyed uptown to knock off the old pro in Billy the Kid style. Reisman, attired in boots, electric blue suit and matching cap, hesitated. His arm ached, he said, his vision was blurred. Nevertheless, he agreed to spot his opponent 15 points per game. After...