Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that it reflected baser motives than even the 1979 U.S.S.R. invasion of Afghanistan. "While events in Afghanistan and elsewhere have left few illusions about the willingness of the Soviet Union to advance its interests through violence and intimidation, all of us had hoped that certain irreducible standards of civilized behavior nonetheless obtained," he declared. "But this event shocks the sensibilities of people everywhere...
Shultz's reply was quick, angry and scornful: "No coverup, however brazen or elaborate, can ... absolve the Soviet Union of its responsibility to explain its behavior...
...channel's masterstroke is Mouseterpiece Theater, in which George Plimpton, doing a droll parody of Alistair Cooke, introduces classic cartoons from an overstuffed leather chair: he annotates a Donald Duck short called Straight Shooters by reciting a Baudelaire poem in French to explicate Donald's existential behavior. About 40% of the channel's programming is mined from the Disney library, a Golconda of 60 years of treasures that include 450 cartoon shorts, 561 episodes of The Mickey Mouse Club, 75 episodes of Zorro ("He makes the sign of the Zeee!") and 200 never-before-syndicated hours...
Therapy groups are also forming around the country for sex offenders, although experts disagree on how much recidivism can be curbed among these chronic offenders. The emphasis is on making the rapists take responsibility for their behavior. "I used to think of myself as a good guy," admits Walter, 34, who is in therapy at Lino Lakes prison in Minnesota. The former college halfback raped a woman after the date he was waiting for stood him up. "I have no illusions now. Good guys don't do these things...
Minnesota established the Lino Lakes program in 1979. About 30 sex offenders attend three group-therapy sessions a week, read books and articles dealing with their addictive behavior, and see movies showing the feelings of victims. Rapists must swear off hard-core pornography, which one psychologist describes as being "like a shot of whisky to an alcoholic." Since the program began in 1979, only four of 96 inmates completing it have been jailed again for sex crimes...