FOR THE JOYCEAN NEOPHYTE

...At best, he begs the question, stating equivocally that...

...Musical insight whether of performer or listener is, like all understanding, nourished by the broadest contact with all aspects of the subject...

...Bloom, Stephen and Leopold...

...It was fortunate for Pavlov's peace of mind perhaps that he did not live to see his student and successor...

...376 pp...

...His constant polemics are tedious and even when you agree with his conclusion he rubs you the wrong way...

...Pavlov grew up in the generation which believed in the inheritance of acquired characteristic...

...Even his terrific poverty, when he was a young scientist and when he and his wife were compelled to live apart with their relatives, did not stop his research...

...Academician L. A. Orbeli, removed from his post by the Communist politicians...

...He found that his experiments were defective and in 1926 he withdrew his claim...

...the book merely presents his "columns" in chronological order without any unified plan but with considerable repetitiousness...

...This is an excellent label for identification, but it often obscures the fact that Pavlov made many different contributions to science...

...on the Freudian level, the acceptance of Bloom marks the resolution of Stephen's Oedipus complex," only to learn later that...

...He had earlier stated that the Bolshevist Revolution was the greatest] misfortune sustained by Conway Zirkle is professor of botany at Pennsylvania University...

...we cannot join a book club or visit a lending library without encountering Joyce...

...The author, Professor B P. Babkin, was Pavlov's student, colleague and friend and is eminently fitted for his task by opportunity, temperament and scientific competence...

...Inadvertently, Professor Tindall seems to have spotted his own weakness most accurately when he informs us that...

...Such a scientist was Ivan Petrovich Pavlov (1849-1936), whose biography was recently published on the hundredth anniversary of his birth...

...In 1923 he announced that he had induced a conditioned reflex in mice which was inherited...

...Nor does he escape the more common errors of the psychoanalytic method, showing himself perhaps a little too much at home with the assurance of fixed terms that often cloak a vast body of ignorance...

...He pooh-poohs the value of musical scholarship (in distinction from just experiencing live musical sounds) and he is generally contemptuous of the writings and attitudes of musicologists...

...In describing this phase of Pavlov's life the biographer is at his best, and no abstract or condensed version can do the event justice...

...He came to his laboratory early and stayed late and worked seven days a week...

...When he gets down to the heart Wallace Markiield writes for Parthan Review and Commentary...

...His life of Pavlov is both valuable for historians of science and entertaining for the layman...

...Haggin's manner of reViewing records (a task, I believe, in which he was one 61 the pioneers) or performances . (largely radio) is too private and personal to serve as a means of education for the general, literate music-lover...

...and finally that the real Russian persecution of science did not acquire momentum until after his death...

...But without the right scientific background of knowledge how will the listener detect a phony performance of these "patterns of sounds" from a right one and further, how is he to judge if he does not possess Haggin's sensitivity and "confidence in my ears and in my impressions of the music...

...But those of the anal type are better stylists...

...That there have been many dissenting readers of his opinions including some articulate ones, as the author himself reveals, is not surprising...

...Personal pronouns are never far apart in these pages...

...We must be grateful to Professor Babkin, however, for giving us the facts of Pavlov's life and work which might otherwise be lost, and for giving us a realistic picture of a great scientist and a great human being undistorted by ideology...

...Not long ago a great celebration was held in Russia in honor of Pavlov £nd, with appropriate ceremonies, the greatphysiologist was admitted into the Communist Olympus...

...Reviewed by WALLACE MARKFIELD THERE IS an ambiguous quality about this little study of Joyce, perhaps best reflected in the author's introduction...

...It is true that some such writers do utter irrelevancies or are endowed with less than' the clearest thinkjng but it is just as foolish to deny the validity and value of this branch of musical knowledge as it would be to condemn concert performances because of the presence of shallow virtuosi in the field...

...To state obvious truths without defining all the relevant conditions of their veracity leads to meaningless and confuted half-truths...

...Others could not repeat his results (the old, old story): but Pavlov was honest...

...His attacks upon the vulgarities end inanities that disfigure our commercialized world of radio and other musical institutions certainly have plenty of justification...

...Pavlov's name is inseparably linked with the phrase "conditioned reflex...

...He was honest, fair, humane, crotchety, and likable...

...COMPLETE AS IS Professor Babkin's account of Pavlov's scientific endeavors, one well-known episode in his life seems to have been overlooked...

...This is certainly an unusual age for fundamental convictions to change, yet there is evidence that Pavlov was perfectly sincere...

...His critical techniques are almost wholly derivative, and he is able to leap about from' T. S. Eliot to Kenneth Brake, from St...

...Nor did he let up when his academic status was bettered or even later when he achieved a certain amount of affluence...

...It cannot be denied that in Chamber Music and Finnegans Wake Joyce seems devoted to urination...

...He was always seeking analogies...

...A Biography...

...This event added to his stature as a man...

...He is capable of sound critical exegesis and occasionally permits himself one of those daring boulevertements which reveal more than a score of minutely detailed Ph...

...Aside from egogratification to the author, one may question, just what is the point of issuing such a collection...

...cause his sounder criticisms could provide wholesome correctives to casual, lazy acceptance of the status quo...

...Reviewed by HILDA PINSON UNDER A SOMEWHAT misleading pun of a title, Bernard Haggin presents a compilation of his pieces on music that have appeared in The Nation over a period of eighteen years...

...Some Notes Gone Sour MUSIC IN THE NATION...

...It is just this that enables an artist to attain the right perspective (also expected of a critic) and to acquire the insight that leads away from empty virtuosity or, just as bad, a merely correct recital of notes, to an imaginative understanding of the score...

...His most outstanding characteristic seems to have been his unfailing energy and drive...

...Pavlov emerges as an interesting and unusual individual...

...Tindall rebuffs Joyce, even as he embraces him, never quite sure of how to reconcile Joyce's self-exile with the magnificent warmth in his approach to society and man...

...In 1904 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for his work on the physiology of the digestive tract, and it was only after this fundamental contribution was made that he turned his attention to the central nervous system, studied reflexes and led the way in the physiological approach to psychology...

...We can only point out that Pavlov was too prominent a world scientist to be persecuted...

...The basic fault of Professor Tindall's informal method lies in the fact that really there is little method at all...

...It is all very well to state that one learns music from "the life in a work of art...

...5.00...

...Most men retain something infantile...

...365 pp...

...of his task, his lucid, readable style enables him to clarify many points which must certainly have deterred the "average" reader from attempting Joyce...

...One of the most interesting events of Pavlov's life was his conversion to Communism in his eighty-fourth year...

...It is too early for us to know just what myths will be attached to his name...

...Reviewed by CONWAY ZIKKLE RUSSIA has always had a few original, even brilliant, investigators, whose discoveries have greatly enriched world knowledge...

...But Part I, where Pavlov the human being is described, has greater interest for the general reader...

...Haggin is no literary artist...

...Then comes the question, for whom does he write...

...The trained musician can be discounted...

...after illuminating this unexplored fragment, he evades the problems which might have given greater scope to his work...

...By B. H. Haggin...

...his opinions and personality are not such that invite examination or re-examination by a wide public...

...There is a perennial chip on his shoulder...

...Augustine to Jonathan Swift with scarcely a pause for breath...

...University of Chicago Press...

...An artist's way of knowing, although different from a philosopher's, is of equal importance...

...Genius of the Conditioned Reflex PAVLOV...

...as he approached modern society and man, Joyce began to complicate his manner of writing as if to compensate for that approach...

...that his discoveries fit perfectly into the Communist orientation and that consequently he suffered no political meddling...

...By B. P. Babkin...

...Haggin is stubbornly unaware that the cultivation of a comprehensive, illuminating background, a perception of style, periods and all the factors that shape musical history, in addition to a thorough grounding in the technical aspects of composition, are not mere academic appendages or perfunctory requirements of a degree...

...Russia, and he had been openly critical of the Communists for the preceding ten years even when they were supporting him and his work to the limit...

...and all men, the analysts assure us, are either anal or oral in character...

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...At the same time he seems fearful that somewhere along the way he will lose this reader, and takes pains to assuage him with platitudes which serve to render modern literature a little less suspect...

...However, the overinjection of his personal taste and subjective style must prove insufferable to many readers...

...Professor Tindall attempts on one hand to cut away much of the critical underbrush which entangles the "common reader," assuring him that there is little to be frightened of once he drops his initial hostility and recognizes that...

...He displays a tendency toward rigid categorization in his attempt, for example, to demonstrate Joyce's conception of "ideal man" through the combination of Mrs...

...Sloane Associates, New York...

...It is too bad beHilda Plnson is a music teacher and critic...

...that he was a patriotic Russian and Hitler was threatening his country...

...HAOOIN BASES and likewise defends his critical perception and evaluation of musical works and of performance orj his special insight, musical sensitiveness and experience in listening...

...He was 52 years old when Mendel's work was rediscovered and his writings show that he remained a loyal Larriarckian...

...Fortunately, Professor Tindall drops the pose of the venerable academician giving us an informal talk at his fireside...

...But perhaps the fundamental purpose of the book will be accomplished if it serves as a sometimes refreshing, sometimes banal guide for the Joycean neophyte...

...Professor Babkin has covered all of Pavlov's scientific activity and presents us with the complete scientist in Parts II, III and IV of his biography...

...Joyce had a queer mind...

...to be reconciled in the father, it is necessary to destroy him...

...D. texts...

...That this joviality may lead to contradiction is evident when we are told that...

...Thus, at the end of Ulysses, when Daedalus is taken into the home of Leopold Bloom, Professor Tindall, relying mainly upon Kenneth Burke's doctrine of "significant form," perceptively renders the intensity of the drama between the two protagonists, which is reconciled so beautifully through the drinking of the cocoa...