Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Massachusetts Senator Leverett Saltonstall, 71, is lucky to be a Yankee: he comes from a state where the locals appreciate thrift. His mail clerk, Mrs. Judy Sherbert, spent a year winding the ties that bind the Senator's five daily postal consignments. Some folks might conceivably think her behavior a trifle odd, but not "Salty." He knows whereby hangs a tale to tell the voters of Massachusetts, so he called in photographers and bowled them over with Judy's 9¾-Ib. round of twine. "Let's get the ball rolling," he twanged...
...layman historians like Gibbon, Burke and Hume went out of fashion. Academicians took over the writing of history, and they have had a hammerlock on it ever since. With enough research and "objectivity," they were sure that history could be reduced to a number of immutable laws, that human behavior could be neatly categorized and predicted. They gave up trying to see the big picture and began grinding out monographs to which Gibbon would have allotted a footnote...
Under the direction of Hoke S. Simpson, former director of personnel at Vick Chemical Co., the curriculum goes on to economics and business cycles, population problems and consumer behavior, ends with two weeks of "Executives in Action," a study of company goals, managerial decision making and corporate strategy. All this calls for 3½-hour morning sessions in front of the blackboard, three weekly afternoon lectures by guest speakers, and evening seminars for small groups to work over case histories of business problems. Homework, with a three-foot pile of books, often takes more evening hours...
...such homes cannot and do not get the attention, the training, and the sense of family support that will enable them to enter school confidently and begin the process of education without hopeless handicaps. In one particularly dramatic case, a 4½-year-old boy, already given to wild behavior, was adjudged retarded; not until he was referred by an alert day-care teacher to a pediatrician was he found to be almost totally deaf. Enrolled in a special school, he was discovered, in time, to be of near-genius intelligence...
...think the primary blame for all must go to Mullin. It seems that so many trained actors would play their parts in such limited fashions without being instructed to. And in that each actor does have some style of behavior while on stage, he is consistent...