Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generous fee, the Tarrants--a pair of 19th-century Cantabrigians with looks and behavior that seem more rodent-like than human-hand Verena's education, upbringing, and welfare over to Olive. She spirits the girl away to Beacon Hill, and away from all the distractions that could affect an impressionable young woman of that age. Olive's fear for Verena's "impurity" is a fear of everything outside the narrow Suffragist circle of dedicated ladies and genteel performs...
...polarities. Mailer avoids the problem not only because he is too tough but also because he is too tough but also because he is too chicken--he has wimped out. To give an authorial opinion on what happiness is and how happiness relates to social justice and individual behavior would involve taking a political stance, and herein, evidently, lies the problem. Mailer's sexuality places him with the liberals; however, his bravado, his sentimentality, and his creed of suspicious-but-generous self-interest put him firmly with the social conservatives. Mailer is in many ways a typical American...
...magnetic field, if it exists, defies scientists' notions about proper celestial behavior. Perhaps even more baffling to astronomers, the belt of gas rises up at a right angle to the plane of the Milky Way, an extraordinary position for a magnetic field; normally it should lie in the galactic plane, its lines of force trapped like hair around a drain. Attempting to account for the bizarre properties of the field, some scientists are postulating the existence of a "dynamo" at the center of the galaxy, a source of relentless energy. But investigators cannot ascribe the dynamo to any known...
Although he calls television "the enemy of intellectual thought." Shattuck Professor of Government James Q. Wilson will begin work this fall on a 26-episode T. V. series devoted to his specialty--crime and criminal behavior...
When fans ran on the track at the end of the night. Maiern, the track announcer for the night, yelled. "Hey come on, we can't have that. If you want us to bring supercross back to Foxboro next year, we can't have that kind of behavior." Foxboro police said it was hard to compare the supercross crowd to a football crowd because it was much smaller, but they reported only one fight and a handful of minor incidents. An average football game may send upwards of 25 people to the police station. Clearly supercross has a long...