Word: baron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...gist of Lileya is a love affair between a young serf and a young serfess during some sort of mid-summer's eve celebration. A fat, dissolute, and probably capitalistic robber baron starts the plot rolling by breaking up the festivities, and then deciding that he wants young Lileya as his scullery maid. Serf Stephen runs away to join the "free" (naturally) Cossacks, and Lileya hides in a broken-down water mill...
...true worker fashion, however, Stephen returns to rouse up the local peasants and overthrow the terrified baron. Somewhat embittered by the burning of his castle, the noble shoots Lileya (in the back), only to be stabbed by Stephen's henchmen. The movie closes with a shot of Stephen looking Byronic on the top of a hill...
...Victory. Tizard pressed on, and radar was ready in time to help win the Battle of Britain. But the feud had just begun. When Churchill became Prime Minister in 1940, Lindemann forced Tizard out of his job as the Air Ministry's science adviser. In 1942 the new Baron Cherwell pressed for strategic bombing of such targets as workers' housing to cripple Germany. Asked to study Cherwell's statistics, Tizard found the damage estimate five times too high. But he got nowhere. Churchill's intimate won a backstairs Cabinet fight that had "the faint but just...
...scientific answer: it is probably seeking the company of other chickens, and if it is a young chicken, this sociability indicates that it was raised with other chickens around. These are the findings reported by University of Maine Psychologists Alan Baron and George B. Kish, who measured the effect of early isolation on chicken behavior. They hatched 30 chicks in a dark incubator. Ten chicks were then moved to individual cubicles, getting no chance to see one another. Ten more were cooped in pairs, and the remaining ten were kept together as a small, sociable flock...
...first tests were completed, all the chickens were put in a single flock and kept together until they were ten weeks old. When they were cooped again in the togetherness tester, they all behaved pretty much alike toward the stimulus chicken on the other side of the wire. Baron and Kish conclude that chicks raised in isolation feel little attraction for their own kind, but after they have flocked together for six weeks, they learn to be as sociable as other chickens. Chickens are not much like humans, but Baron and Kish believe that their chicken study should bring cheer...