Word: behavior
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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What is so disturbing about the book is that it is clearly not just an anthropological work: Freeman is determined to prove that "Mead's presentation of Samoa as proving the insignificance of biology in the etiology of adolescent behavior is revealed as a false case." The book suffers from this pre-occupation; it would be a far stronger work if Freeman had simply concentrated on the Samoans as they...
Freeman refutes Mead's findings in Samoa on almost all counts: rank, aggressive behavior, religion and punishment, for instance. Contrary to popular belief, Freeman claims that the Samoans are not an easy going, forgiving, and relatively egalitarian people. Rather, they are aggressive, strict, somewhat pious, and, on occasion, belligerent and violent--not entirely unlike our own culture. More interesting are Freeman's chapters on sexual mores and behavior, and on adolescence. He concludes that the Samoans are in fact as uptight and troubled as adolescent Americans...
...members of the Administrative Board, have a responsibility to seek to assist that student to graduate. Occasionally it is helpful to ask a student to leave the college for a while, if that student is experiencing successive academic failure or difficulty living within the College's rules of behavior. Most often, however, a far more minor adjustment in a student's circumstances is all that is required to guide the student toward successful degree completion. Whether the circumstances be grave or trivial, however, the Board's purpose remains the same--to assist every student who comes before it to obtain...
...three-week trial in Dallas of seven New Orleans police officers for violating the civil rights of four witnesses under interrogation would have set any jury's heads spinning. The prosecution laid out allegations of almost gestapo-style brutality; the defense countered with a description of police behavior that approached textbook perfection. Last week the jury in effect delivered a split judgment. While they found four officers innocent of all charges, they said three were guilty of both conspiracy, a felony, and beating a black witness under interrogation, a misdemeanor...
Donaldson's demeanor of adolescent rebellion-as the kind of kid who got A's on tests and F's in behavior and took equal pride in both-can make him appear undisciplined. In reality, he brings to his work the same dogged determination that carried him from a "sad rat" freshman to a "sharp sergeant" at New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell. Raised by a strict Baptist mother in El Paso, Donaldson returned to attend Western Texas College. After graduate school at the University of Southern California and a stint in the Army, he came back...