Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soon he heard from the U.S. consul. He was turned down. "The letter made it clear . . . that the U.S. for the moment is in short pants and that until it gets back to adult ways there is nothing to do but be gently intolerant of its behavior. It is not easy to have any other attitude toward America in a tantrum, there is so much of ourselves in its people...
...Kinsey got off on the wrong foot, said Dr. Kubie, by making two wrong basic assumptions. "One is that the overt manifestations of sexual patterns are all that we need to know about human sexuality. The other ... is that where any behavior pattern is widespread ... it is superfluous to attempt to explain it ... The implication that because homosexuality is prevalent we must accept it as 'normal,' or as a happy and a healthy way of life, is wholly unwarranted...
...Magnifying a small portion of TIME'S version of Dr. Leo Kanner's report on "Frosted Children" [TIME, April 26], L. B. Martin suggests that through their efforts to achieve a scientific understanding of human behavior, psychologists and psychiatrists must deny the importance of affection and emotional expression in mental health, and that this denial would necessarily be reflected in their own children [TIME, Letters, May 17]. Nothing could be farther from the truth. As clinicians, psychologists and psychiatrists try to help their clients understand their emotions, and to learn to express them in normally acceptable ways...
...According to the New York Times's non-fiction bestseller list, U.S. readers, after briefly preferring Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind, decided they liked Peace of Mind better, after...
...fiction readers, the New York Times reported, now prefer Sexual Behavior in the Human Male to Peace of Mind...