Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...keep your afterthoughts dry. Last week a story in Izvestia caught his fancy. He passed it along: "Red Army troops are evacuating Iran amid many expressions of love and admiration at mass meetings of the people. . . . From Meshed Comes a bulletin: ... 'as our dear guests by their good behavior left pleasant impressions . . . the Iranian people love the Soviet people from the bottom of their hearts...
...political ignorance and by disease. Yet they have been free enough to produce great contemporary leaders and thinkers. Nobody, not even the British Raj in the days of its strength, has regimented the Indians, who wear a thousand local costumes, speak 225 languages, and follow highly individual patterns of behavior. An Indian is free to sleep on the sidewalks of Madras when he feels tired, or to declare himself a saint and sit waiting for disciples by the burning ghats of Benares; or to send out a seven-year-old child with a dead baby dangling from its hand...
Might of Peace. But he could hardly help noticing the crowd's behavior. Some 65,000 people were in the windswept stadium (capacity 116,308) as the President arrived. Many had waited three or four hours; the temperature was 46°. The crowd gave Eisenhower its biggest cheer of the day, listened attentively to his speech ("We must, until perpetual peace is assured, maintain and constantly improve the perishable machines of our security...
Captain Simoni's agitation was caused by the behavior of students in Trieste's Slovene-language schools. It was far beyond anything in his experience as a fine arts professor in a Kansas university. On a visit to the schools he had been shocked to see "walls just plastered with inscriptions reading 'Viva Tito,' 'Viva Stalin,' 'Down with this and down with that.' " When students left their classes to join a demonstration staged by the pro-Tito Italo-Slovene Anti-Fascist Union, it was too much. The Captain issued a decree closing...
...doctor's orders, the little king, who has always run his empire like an absolute monarch, has supposedly retired. Sample behavior in retirement: when he went to the races to relax, he ended up buying a string of race horses...