Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...function for months in a hostile environment beyond Earth's atmosphere. They must obey commands from millions of miles away, a requirement that calls for radio techniques of incredible delicacy. Giant computers, only recently developed, must plot celestial courses, and enormous vacuum chambers are needed to test behavior in simulated space. These strange space creatures are almost a new type of life, comparable in zoological terms to the first venturesome animals that crawled out of sea water and learned to live in air and sunlight. To breed them calls for the talents of many branches of science...
...committee's behavior takes on new meaning only when it is realized that the entire process was conducted through individual telephonic conferences rather than collective committee meetings. One also suspects that the committee (made up entirely of athletic directors) was nowhere near as familiar with its subject as a comparable body of coaches or sports writers might have been in its place...
Adapting Burt Blechman's novel, How Much? into a twenty-four scene farce, Miss Hellman imparts humor and meaning to characters, who in the book are haphazardly petty and distasteful. The play examines a family who formally seem to fulfill a television version of acceptable behavior, cute foibles, happy live... and judges them substantively immoral, destructive and miserable...
...undergoing treatment should be embarrassed to mention the fact"). As for those pesky teenagers, Miss Vanderbilt advises: "Parents are wise to overlook seemingly disrespectful outbursts from time to time . . . The parent must get across the idea that 'I love you always but sometimes I do not love your behavior...
Clearly this story has its gruesome elements, and Thomas Babe has appropriated them in order, it appears, to account for the behavior of Walter and Griselda. "On his lust present was al his thoght," Chaucer writes of the Lord (meaning his immediate pleasure or wish), and speaks of his "merveillous desir his wyf t'assaye." Babe, ingeniously, has translated this "lust" or "desir" into Walter's elaborate obsession with a pageant he is composing. We do not learn much about the pageant except that it presumably celebrates some ideal of constancy and that it involves the character of Herod...