Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gardenia in Hair. Fortnight ago, eleven days after being released (72 days off for good behavior), Billie made her comeback in Manhattan's Carnegie Hall. It was jampacked (300 were seated on the stage) with a crowd of Holiday cultists whose hysterical applause gave the event the quality of a revival meeting. They were telling their martyred Billie that nothing mattered, just so she was back, and that for their money (up to $3.60 a head) she could do no wrong...
...weeks since its publication, Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male has risen nearly to the top of the bestseller list. (The publishing trade calls it "the least-read bestseller.") Its popularity shows that many a U.S. grownup is just as curious about sex as adolescents are. What else does it show? The American Social Hygiene Association (organized 35 years ago to "advocate the highest standards of public and private morals," combat prostitution and venereal disease, promote sex education) wanted to find out. Last week the association spent two whole days of its three...
...lecherous and predatory decadence of the New World is forgotten in the leafy byways of the Old Country; here, quotations are culled only from the sunny hedgerows of George Meredith, Shakespeare, The Wind in the Willows. World War II-the one which was caused by all the irresponsible behavior described by ardent Father Haydn-is over at last, and Britons are exhausted...
...been organized by the parish priest. He went to the priest. The priest told him that in the early months of the war he had been with a French unit evacuated from Dunkirk. At a small English seaside hotel, under continual bombing, he had been astonished at the behavior of the two women hotelkeepers, who kept up their life as if it were a holiday season in peace. "I recognized in a flash," said the French priest, "we must be formidable too, and that it was possible-above all, that it was possible...
Author Sze does a good job of describing the sallies, bickerings and clumsy esprit de corps of her "little rats." Without distorting the naturalness of children's behavior, she leads the reader to envision the camp on the mud flats as a nation struggling to live. And Author Sze's ironical conclusion drives home a sharp point: it is not agents of civilized law & order who at last break up the camp, but an outraged black-marketeer with a Tommy gun, who regards the little thieves as a menace to the sanctity of his property...