Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...latest research into manic-depressive illness [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 8] attempts to give a good name to a bad disease. Having worked as a psychiatric attendant, I know that the "creative" highs of manic-depression do not always give rise to artistic works of genius. On the contrary, many of these highs can result only in elaborate schemes that have absolutely no base in reality...
Women, especially women seeking public office, have been allowed a very narrow range of acceptable behavior. A woman candidate must be neither too sexy nor too severe, too young nor too old. Her voice must be modulated into an aural approximation of the dress-for-success suit. Otherwise she will be thought - God forbid - too aggressive. She must seem tough enough to stand up to the Soviets without being tough enough to frighten Freud...
However, it is not the University's role to shape behavior through use of financial disincentives. To a certain extent, we students are a captive population. The University can fine use for a variety of things which make running the college more difficult. However, the fact remains that we pay for our education. The students pay the Registrar's salary and the ultimate purpose of the Office of the Registrar is to serve the students' educational needs. If a students makes a trivial mistake which costs nothing to correct, they have a right to expect service. I knew, these...
From my research on manic-depression, which you covered in "The Ups and Downs of Creativity" [BEHAVIOR, Oct. 8], I have come to believe there are positive aspects to manic-depressive illness. But these effects should be put in the context of enormous human suffering. Suicide, cocaine abuse and alcoholism are exceedingly high among those afflicted with this sickness. And as far as the manic-depressive artist is concerned, I do not advocate that artists should avoid professional help. On the contrary, they have been undertreated for their mood disorders, and many could profit from the sophisticated use of lithium...
...fear of corporate reprisal? What freedoms do we have as an institution if we are barred from taking the most basic of moral stands? If we cannot apply even minimal pressure, then what likelihood is there that United States companies will take seriously our views on corporate behavior? Of what use is the intensive dialogue which Bok speaks of so highly, if we refuse to offer incentives to corporations to make concrete changes...