Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Strange Behavior. At the beginning of a solar cycle, which averages eleven years, a few sunspots materialize about 35 degrees away from the solar equator in both the northern and southern hemispheres. Some last for a few days or weeks, others for months. As the cycle progresses, the spots occur with greater frequency and appear ever closer to the equator. About five years after the cycle begins, the sunspots increase to a maximum number, and appear around 15 degrees from the equator. During the next six years, the number of sunspots gradually decreases. Before the last of the old spots...
...Donovan's Reef best reveals Ford's emotional range, The Sun Shines Bright (1953) is the most obvious choice to illustrate this ordering. The grouping of the townspeople around the levy in the first few shots suggests harmonies confirmed in the unified behavior of the lynch mob and the choir in front of the church. The scenes of Confederate and GAR veterans' meetings emphasize the auditorium corridors, the deliberateness of physical movement through them, and the relationship of the auditorium seats to the main speaker and the flags that surround him. The last reel of Sun Shines Bright contains...
...analysts are just beginning to examine the raw data collected in the study, but the realization that a bit of the hero lurks in every man still amazes the Viet Nam interviewers. Says one veteran Marine sergeant who talked to 200 wounded men: "We had seen this kind of behavior in the movies, and we were trained to do it. I had always thought it was the exception. It is, however, the rule...
Soviet officials encourage the new leisured masses to strive for kulturnost, or "cultivated behavior," which includes not only good manners and respect for learning but observance of the elementary rules of hygiene and sanitation as well. "Free time does not amount to idleness," warns Sociologist G. S. Petrosian. "It is the time devoted to study, the raising of [occupational] qualifications, self-education and self-development." As Pravda puts it with typical elephantine grace, "To care about the cultural recreation of the people is, above all, to ensure the conditions making it possible for the working people to spend their free...
...anthropologist at Northwestern University, argued that many black cultural patterns are basically African in origin. Although his thesis was initially dismissed by the majority of sociologists and anthropologists-including most Negro experts-the Cultural Mafia agrees with Herskovits. Its members believe that they have discovered a number of behavioral parallels between native Africans and black Americans. One similarity is the typical way that many Negroes laugh: they cover their mouths, lower their heads and do a little dance with their feet. Such behavior was once explained away as light-hearted childishness, but some anthropologists now believe that it may well...