Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kaiser Wilhelm in War I and of Adolf Hitler in War II, poetasting Journalist Viereck in 1943 began a one-to-five-year sentence (as a German agent) in the Federal Penitentiary at Lewisburg, Pa. Last week, having been released 18 months short of the maximum for good behavior, he was in good shape, said his lawyer, and had written a novel...
...guess I'm a disillusioned fellow traveler. I'm angry with our former great Allies. It's an accumulation of many things, but principally it's because of Russia's behavior in the United Nations. The Russians are determined to break up U.N. We could take a lot of slaps at our own foreign policy, and we've lost a lot of our moral right to criticize. We're all wrong, but Russia is wronger...
...This belief in the individual is in our blood. It is our most fundamental characteristic. It gives a certain typical disorderliness to our behavior which baffles some foreign observers...
...machine checks up on the behavior of blood vessels, which register emotional upsets by expanding and contracting abnormally. Tulane's Drs. George E. Burch and Clarence T. Ray, searching for a simple means of registering psychosomatic disturbances "objectively," used a "plethysmograph." The subject sticks his finger tip into a plastic cup, and the machine records the finger's alternate swelling and contraction by measuring the tiny changes in the cup's air volume...
...press rushed in. What went on was hastily reported at the time, but not so frankly and fully as three newsmen told it in books out last week.* Though the authors may not have intended them to be, their accounts are a revealing documentation of the harum-scarum behavior of the press under stress. "The whole thing," wrote Cornelius Ryan (then of the London Telegraph, now of TIME), "was a cross between a Marx Brothers movie, Hellzapoppin and an Irish wake...