Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...necessity of adult baptism. Like the Quakers 150-odd years later, they eschewed a paid priesthood and the use of force, did their best to follow literally the precepts of Jesus, patterned their lives on those of the early Christians. In those days, even more than now, such behavior was not only unconventional but dangerous...
...American idea that "youth is always right," or "don't be too hard on them, they'll outgrow it," are responsible, along with lack of home discipline, for the unnecessarily loud and crude behavior of high school youth today...
Alice Adams, besides, was probably Tarkington's best effort to tell "the truth and mystery of human nature." His account of Alice's emotions and behavior during a saunter down a street in spring, of her exhausting stratagems to avoid seeming snubbed at a dance, had a precision and pathos more than worthy of the writer whom Tarkington regarded as his master, William Dean Howells-almost worthy of Henry James. But why was this novel as a whole inferior to Howells, James or Edith Wharton, and why has Tarkington never been thought a strong figure among U.S. writers...
...Spiegelman and Kamen worked with yeast cells, proved that their chemical behavior could be changed, while the genes remained unchanged. This suggested strongly that something besides the genes affected cell characteristics...
...body like cattle, prairie dogs and rabbits on an overstocked range. Anything which affects this competition may favor certain plasmagenes above the others, allowing the favored ones to multiply abnormally, as rabbits once did in Australia. A change in the balance of plasmagenes affects the cell's chemical behavior, as rabbits affected Australia by eating much of its rangeland bare of grass. The cell's genes take no part in the transformation...