Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nowhere have I been able to find profanity, gambling, assault & battery, and generally obnoxious public behavior listed among the virtues demanded of a "baseball immortal...
Medicine, thinks Maine, may be on the wrong track in its general approach to alcoholism and insanity. He suggests that doctors might get better results if, instead of allowing a patient to brood about his own madness, they focused his attention on some of the insane behavior of society. In Maine's case, his treatment produced a broad indignation that made him forget his own narrow craving for alcohol...
What would happen to Leo Durocher? Whether he got his job back with the Dodgers next year depended on his own behavior for the rest of the year, and how well the Dodgers did without him. Said Rickey: "We'll see." One possibility: if the Dodgers don't take Leo back he might end up next spring as manager of MacPhail's New York Yankees. Despite their squabbles, Leo and Larry were two of a kind, and understand each other...
...slowly down the floor, first one and then another of the villagers drops in for late morning coffee and gossip. They build and believe fictions out of malice, lay plans that are monuments of self-deception, respond to reality, when it is forced on them, with shocked disbelief. The behavior of their feet, which have a vivid animal reality for the scrubwoman, often gives the lie to what they say. But the drama of physical reality that they create finally becomes so exciting that even the narrator is infected. "Despite myself and the progress I have made by realizing...
This collection of 14 of his short stories, published less than two years after his death, provides high-caliber ammunition for Dreiser's detractors. The homely virtues are still here: the worried kindliness with which he awkwardly embraces his characters, the groping for the why of inhuman behavior. Typical tales...