Word: beggarman
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...Beggarman, Thief, Shaw
...environment. It was the environment alone, he felt, that determined what a man is: "Give me a dozen healthy infants," he wrote in 1925, "and I'll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select?doctor, lawyer, even beggarman and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities." The goal of this Watsonian behaviorism was the prediction and control of behavior?which suited Skinner to perfection...
Certainly it is true that as any man--lawyer, doctor, beggarman. Indian chief--enlarges the scope of his liberal education, he becomes more competent to serve society. But the lawyer is faced with such a complete cross-section of human activity that his need for a broad outlook is paramount. Casual undergraduate training in economic and sociological principles, which is often the full extent of a law school graduate's background, is not sufficient' nor is a mere smattering of psychology and government adequate for either a judge or a practicing barrister. And above all, success in the struggle...
...Beggarman Elmer Thomas, putting aside his Senatorial cutaway for tattered overalls, asked again & again for alms, in the form of a few billions of greenbacks...
...have no bananas today. Where is the clergyman, college president, banker, lawyer, beggarman, society or labor leader or Congressman who is not thoroughly alive to this unprecedented situation...