Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...cause of this anti-Judkins feeling is FCCommissioner Clifford Judkins Durr. He fathered the recent FCC report on radio's behavior (TIME, March 18), insisting that radio's business was FCC's business. He has continually demanded better programming-more public service, fewer commercials-and opposed the purchase of stations by corporations with no knowledge of radio. He dissents so often from his fellow commissioners' decisions that it is big news when he votes...
...blood characters, remodels them into a charmed family circle that is as sparkling and daft as a fairy tale. In addition to a lovely heroine who does just what the title suggests, Pursuit stars one of contemporary fiction's best-loved character types-a father who combines the behavior of Ivan the Terrible with the heart of Spencer Tracy...
...will ever earn in Florence. Machiavelli turns it down, partly out of loyalty to Florence, partly because he has seen what happens to Borgia's henchmen. When he returns home at the end of his mission, he realizes that he has had an education in statecraft and princely behavior, also in the behavior of women. He drafts a saucy play about a woman like Aurelia, hints that he may some day write a book about a man like Borgia. "My dear Niccoló," says a friend, "you're so impractical. Who d'you think would read...
Scandalized by the behavior of U.S. soldiers in Europe, General Joseph T. McNarney had laid on the lash of stricter discipline (TIME, May 6). In theory, the tightened rules were to apply to both officers and enlisted men, but in practice, rank still had its privileges. Those privileges were still being abused, notably in Nürnberg...
Among many Germans, the respect which the U.S. won by its armed might is already outweighed by the occupiers' later behavior. Said a German editor: "It is a pity you should lose so quickly what took so long to gain. But as long as your officers set such examples, you could not really expect your soldiers to behave differently...