Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...laughed, howled, and did everything short of rolling on the laundromat floor while reading your cover story on Rowan and Martin. I had to take refuge behind your magazine to evade the glaring eyes of the other patrons who couldn't understand my erratic behavior...
...prejudices (about dutiful servants and degenerate Spaniards) which make it impossible for him to comprehend rightly the situation, even with the mounting evidence that something is wrong and even when his own life depends on correct perception. He insists on the exactly wrong assessment--believing that Cereno's eccentric behavior signifies that the Spaniard intends to harm...
...power of this final tabloid is more to the credit of Lowell than the TCB. The violence itself is difficult to mis-stage, but it makes sense only if the production's narrow reading of the script is expanded. While racism is essential to Delano's behavior, the TCB fails to suggest that the Yankee would defend his (national) values against any threat--racial or not--not by reason or mercy, but by force. Benito Cereno is less a tragedy of malice or vengefulness--suggested by the Theater Company--than of American blindness...
Victims, he says, have been described as brain-injured or brain-damaged, or as having an organic brain defect resulting in unsocialized, aggressive behavior. It is likely, most psychiatrists agree, that these children have suffered (perhaps in the womb or at birth) a minute brain abnormality that impairs their social behavior. But they are not mentally retarded; their intelligence is usually average or above...
...Touch Me. The first signs of hyperkinetic behavior, says Martin, may appear in the first weeks of life: "Even tiny infants with the disorder are constantly active and irritable, and have difficulty sleeping at night. They seem to stiffen and resent motherly coddling and loving. Their attitude appears to be 'Love me but don't touch me.' "These babies usually walk earlier than others. As they grow, they have excellent coordination and easily learn good balance on skates and bikes. They want playmates, but treat them so badly that they are soon shunned by the other kids...