Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...news of the sovereign Argentine Government's recent behavior, see LATIN AMERICA...
Stewart, a popular author of the 1920's, is well known for his works, "perfect Behavior," a burlesque of Emily Post's etiquette series, and "Mr. and Mrs. Haddock Abroad." In 1925, responding to the call of Hollywood, he left the East and moved out to a job writing scenarios for the screen, and he has remained in California a good deal of the time since then. Some of the more famous scripts on which he has worked are "The Barretts of Wimpole Street," "The Philadelphia Story," and "Without Love." At present he is residing in Cambridge, preparing a play...
...Sara Delano Roosevelt wrote in her diary: "At 11 we took darling Baby to the chapel in his prettiest clothes and best behavior. Dr. Cady christened him 'Franklin Delano.' . . . Baby was quite good and lovely so we were proud of him." The chapel was ivy-covered St. James' Episcopal Church (capacity: 200) in Hyde Park...
Civil affairs officers had long known that the more than half-million Okinawans would constitute a major problem. Whether they would be friendly or hostile had not been known. These first people, once their fear quieted, seemed friendly and docile enough. In their behavior there seemed reason to hope that in Japan's Ainu strain, a people might be found ready to reject the militarism of the Japanese and live at peace with the world...
Playwright Kelly is no punch-puller-and no knight of chivalry. In The Deep Mrs. Sykes he brings down the whip, with a kind of cold fury, on the whole "female" nature. Yet he carefully digs beneath behavior for motive, explains Mrs. Sykes as well as excoriates her. In fact, he explains everybody-a virtue that winds up as a kind of fault, because the play resorts to outside enlightenment rather than selfrevelation; it tells rather than shows. The result is more like a solved cryptogram than a thing of flesh & blood. But, if not a satisfying experience, The Deep...