Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, his teachers were besieging his parents with letters complaining about his incorrigible behavior at school: "He jumps like a frog and that's about all he knows; he even dances on the staircase landings." His father ordered him to give up dancing. He acquiesced, but invented excuses to slip away at night to neighboring villages to perform with a touring folk-dance group. The performances were held by the light of kerosene lamps on an improvised stage suspended between two trucks...
Since the American government began its bombing raids on North Vietnam two months ago, opposition to its escalation of the war has been at times cogent but as often confused. Judging only from the government's behavior, Washington has paid relatively little attention to such opposition. The air strikes have continued and U.S. military strength in South Vietnam has been increased. The CRIMSON has already argued, in an editorial on February 24, that escalation through bombing offers no real prospect for ending the Vietnamese conflict. We now believe that if Washington is ever to become convinced of the futility...
...earlier period, says Sanford, "college girls who engaged in premarital intercourse were often submissive, somewhat masochistic people who could be seduced because they felt that they had little else to offer." But today, he claims, "the great majority of college students are much concerned to make their sexual behavior an integrated part of a love relationship," and they act "with their eyes open." Restraint does not necessarily signify a conviction that sexual activity is wrong...
...your largely negative comments about clergy participation in the demonstrations in Selma and Montgomery [March 26] reasonably factual but unpardonably superficial. We went to Alabama chiefly in response to Martin Luther King's call for help. Responding to desperate calls for help would seem to be appropriate clerical behavior. We went as an act of deliberate identification with those in need whose cause is just, to lend encouragement and support, and hopefully to redeem in part our past record of passivity and neutralism. We went as American citizens deploring and protesting Wallace's disfiguration of American democracy...
...swap girls, drugs and stolen motorcycle parts with equal abandon. In between drug-induced stupors, the Angels go on motorcycle-stealing forays, even have a panel truck with a special ramp for loading the stolen machines. Afterward, they may ride off again to seek some new nadir in sordid behavior...