Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Behavior section this week, TIME examines one body of dissidents whose voice, while comparatively muted until now, promises to grow much louder in the months to come: the militant new feminists of the Women's Liberation movement, who regard themselves as one of the most discriminated-against groups in American life today. The story was written by Ruth Brine, who was valedictorian of her class at West High School in Waterloo. Iowa, a Phi Beta Kappa and editor of the literary magazine at Vassar, and took a master's degree in journalism from Columbia. "Then, as any feminist...
...letter proclaimed that the U.S. "empire" is breaking up because of revolutions abroad and at home, where blacks are now being joined by "white Americans striking blows for liberation." U.S. Attorney Morgenthau summed up: The defendants have "anarchical mentalities" that totally reject "civilized standards of behavior...
Dropouts, he said, are characterized by a desire to take risks "in order to test their capacities as well as their courage . . . . Some take drugs and go on to escalate dosage and experiment with more dangerous substance . . . . Fast driving and irresponsible sexual behavior are other risk-taking activities engaged in by young people deprived of challenges...
...main problem with this theory is that human behavior is rarely so simple that it can be understood in terms of a single motivation like risk taking. Blaine made no mention of the other functions drugs can fill-including the fact that taking drugs can be enjoyable. It's also hard to figure out how he came up with "fast driving" as an integral part of today's youth culture, and he must realize that most of the risk has been taken out of "irresponsible sexual behavior...
Students "force our attention upon them by their bizarre and at times violent behavior," he said. "Growing beards and long hair... symbolizes contempt for what is felt to be the hypocrisy of making oneself unnaturally pretty by means of shaving and haircuts- these, of course, being only small surface manifestations of a deep-seated contempt for the hypocrisy they believe is present in the business and political world of the well-groomed adult," he said...