Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany Committee came home to roost last week. The newborn German Communist Party met in Berlin and issued a manifesto setting forth the Party's program for the next step in Russian-occupied Germany. The program, whose moderation was startling chiefly to people who try to understand Communist behavior without understanding Communism, called for a popular front, parliamentary government and the unhampered development of private enterprise. The manifesto specifically...
There was no consistent pattern to the Japs' behavior. While a few surrendered (see above), and a few more tried to do so, most of the cut-off enemy groups ran around wildly, then blew themselves to bits with grenades. One captured Jap went out (on his parole to return) and brought in twelve others. Major General Pedro...
Resigning his Madrid appointment, Sickles worked feverishly for his mistress and her son. Came the day when the young man was triumphantly crowned as Alfonso XII and Isabella, henceforth bound to more conventional behavior, sadly said goodbye to her lover. Sickles returned to New York and resumed his long-forgotten law practice...
...Both scorn Earl Browder, but take a for giving attitude towards what the Nation calls the Soviet's "bad behavior" to small neighbors.) This line finally got to be too much for earnest, beetle-eyed Louis Fischer, once violently pro-Russian. Last week, after 22 years on the Nation staff and 12 years (1924-36) as its ecstatic Moscow correspondent, Fischer quit. Said he: "There were years when you rose up to smite any power that wronged the weak, when your words rang out against . . . the suppression of small, weak states by mighty neighbors. . . . The Nation...
These are some of the conclusions about animal behavior reached by the late G. Kingsley Noble, onetime curator of experimental biology at Manhattan's American Museum of Natural History, and now published by his widow and longtime coworker, Ruth Crosby Noble, in The Nature of the Beast (Doubleday Doran, $2.75). A few of the book's assertions were established by experiment. Readers are asked to accept the rest on faith in the Nobles' long observation and deductive powers. Some other Noble findings...