Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they pointed out, to testify against such Chicago mobsters as Louis ("The Man to See") Campagna, Frank ("The Immune") Maritote and Charles ("Cherry-Nose Joy") Gioe. This was convincing to Judge Knox, who freed Willie three years and George two years before they would normally be released for good behavior. Their prison behavior, incidentally, had been magnificent. Said Willie's lawyer: "He has the garbage cans at Sandstone shining as they never shined before...
...seems to me that the experience of sharing the same bed, being one of the most intimate and prolonged forms of behavior which two persons can enjoy together . . . will inevitably tend to produce an identification of one with the other, a feeling of 'togetherness.'. . .How long can ill feeling or misunderstanding endure between persons who share the same bed? Certainly nowhere nearly as long as between persons occupying separate beds or bedrooms...
...alcohol, refused to touch it. They never really developed a taste for it. But as their neuroses grew, they took to steady tippling. They frisked about unsteadily, waved their paws erratically, grew belligerent, at length fell into a drunken stupor. These drunkards enforced were cats, and their scientifically controlled behavior, according to the man who made them drunkards (Psychiatrist Jules H. Masserman of the University of Chicago), helps explain why men take to drink...
...killer's make-up and machinations, partly in a Scotland Yarder's careful detective work. Unfortunately the two parts do not cooperate over well. As a study in detection, Hand in Glove lacks the right cat-&-mouse touch because the criminal's guilt-edged behavior lets the cat too quickly out of the bag. As a study of twisted personalities, it lacks the depth that would make the killer terrifying, lacks the intensity that would make the imbecile a final agent of horror. Instead, the boy is merely unpleasant, and the whole play dangles uneasily between...
...order was issued for reasons other than Hedlund's death. Several weeks ago the company began discussions with SEC on the deterioration of its position. At the same time, SEC began to watch with interest the behavior of the company's securities. The bonds had slipped from 100 to under 90, and the common dropped from a high of 15¼ to 11⅜. Company officials approved the suspension as a sound move to protect security holders from losses generated by rumors, and held an all-day session in an effort to cut expenses and find...