Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misplaced votes at Radcliffe. What happened on the female side of the Square last week bodes well for the supply of Hokinsonian matrons in the suburbia of the future, but the people actually involved in the incident might feel that they have a right to expect more responsible behavior from a duly constituted Student Government...
...will compete with such books as Eisenhower's "Crusade in Europe," Churchill's "The Gathering Storm," Kinsey's "Sexual Behavior in The Human Male," and "The Naked and the Dead" by Norman Mailer '41 for the Gutenberg Award, to be given by the Book Manufacturer's Institute...
Professor French deserves the highest praise for training the chorus in behavior, which was sufficiently indifferent to the action on stage, and for precise cooperation. The hymn-like a cappella sections of the finale were perfectly beautiful. But Malcolm Holmes, the conductor, cannot be given such plaudits. Although the orchestra showed its capabilities, he failed on several attacks and seldom succeeded in subduing the instrumentalists in time to get the soloists' first phrases...
...week's end, the telecasters of California were holding a meeting to draw up some sort of a code for TV behavior. Sixty members of the Television Producers' Association appointed a committee to look into such controversial matters as cleavage, the time permitted for a kiss, and the proposed editing of wrestling matches to eliminate "suggestive positions...
...Natural law is not sacred law," she said, "for each newly discovered law later proves to be a special case of a more comprehensive law. These laws are not handed down from above," she said; "they rather are formulas describing universal patterns of physical behavior...