Word: becker
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Denial of Death by Ernest Becker (Free Press, 1973). Anxiety over death, not over sex, Anthropologist Becker decided, is the prime trouble of mankind. An unconventionally religious book that won a Pulitzer Prize shortly after the author died of cancer...
...pink." According to Alexander Schauss, director of biosocial research at City College in Tacoma, Wash., the sight of the color pink changes the secretion of hormones, thus reducing aggressiveness. A jail commander in San Jose, Calif., who has tested the theory says it works-for a while. Lieut. Paul Becker found that prisoners were less hostile for the first 15 minutes in a cell that had been painted pink. But after 20 minutes, the hostility grew, and after three hours some of the men started to tear the paint off the walls. Conclusion: pink may be best for inmates whose...
...knew that the reality of George Orwell's 1984 was creeping up on us slowly, but now it has arrived. Your story about the black boxes that give off subliminal mind-controlling messages [Sept. 10] was shocking. Inventor Hal C. Becker is playing God, deciding which mind-controlling messages are O.K. for the masses and which ones...
...Becker says he has turned down politicians' requests to use his black box behavior modification. But if he can invent one, so can others. Then there could be messages like "I will vote Democratic/ Republican/Fascist." The black box should be outlawed...
...Becker is not worried about abuses...