Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sadness dominates the dramatic high point of the evening. Mary Todd Lincoln (Helen Hayes) is undergoing a jury trial to determine her sanity. With an obvious desire to be frank, she begins to link any strangeness in her behavior to the inconsolable loss of three sons and the assassinated Abe. Just as the artless conviction of her account is taking hold, a spasm of madness shatters her face in fragments as if an earthquake had jaggedly ripped open the mind's thin crust. As Lincoln, Fritz Weaver brings timely eloquence to a pithy debate on civil rights...
...powerful National Education Association, spokesman for 902,000 classroom teachers, frowns on the words "strike" and "boycott"-they describe highly unprofessional behavior. But in Utah last week, 10,000 N.E.A. teachers went on a two-day "recess" while the association voted "sanctions" against the whole state, and for all Utah knew it might just as well have been struck and boycotted...
These are fields linked together by their common search for regularities in human behavior, and by their analytic and qualitative as opposed to historical and qualitative approaches. They are fields that are relatively new in their present increasingly scientific form. They are fields, also that have a strong interest for our under-graduates because of their obvious bearing on many current issues facing both individuals and society...
...other hand the behavioral sciences share much, though by no means all, of the concern and the methodology of the natural sciences. Both seek to establish abstract regularities in the behavior of the objects they study and when possible they test their new insights by the success of their predictions...
...political phenomena, will come alive and be the subject of experimentation in course offerings just as it has been the subject of scholarly investigation....Though we wish to retain the preeminence of Natural Science within the Sciences division, we also wish to introduce the systematic study of human behavior into the General Education Program and to do so in a way that allows for a gradual development of courses in this area specifically designed for General Education...