Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Like G.I. Joes, a few got in serious jams. A few overstayed leave. A few got fed up and went on mild benders. But for the most, behavior was average young female. They put wet towels in each other's beds, tied knots in pajama legs. They griped about red tape, uniforms that did not fit, hats not "as cute as the Marine women's." They might refer to an unpopular officer privately as "that bitch." To the surprise of most males, they got along together just as well...
Psychic Suicide. Elsie Venner is Holmes's most interesting and hardest case. Holmes's analysis of her "psychic suicide" is a model of modern psychiatric thinking. His account of her symptoms (a stiff, frozen demeanor, withdrawal into herself, occasional wild behavior) was a precise description of schizophrenia-though the word and disease were unknown in Holmes...
...Drinkers are much more tolerant toward unconventional behavior, consider themselves more generous and affectionate, seem to have a keener sense of humor. They are more liberal politically and more international-minded. But they have more race prejudice, and more often hold that woman's place is in the home...
...Other techniques tested by teachers [are] ridiculing the child; embarrassing him; comparing him unfavorably with another; shaming him publicly; unduly mistrusting him; allowing the other children to make fun of or take advantage of him . . . especially failing to recognize and report behavior problems in their incipient stage and ... to see that they receive proper treatment. Simple as these techniques are, comparatively few teachers seem able to master them. It requires dogged determination and undeviating devotion to the cause of bigger and better delinquents...
Thirteen days before Dodger President Branch Rickey made last week's pronouncement, the editor & publisher of The Sporting News had gingerly suggested that behavior problems, not salary bickering, were separating Brooklyn's president and manager. Durocher's five-year record was good: one pennant, two seconds, two thirds. But last season the Dodgers had a player revolt, barely finished third. Lippy Leo was as flashy a figure along high-living Broadway as in Ebbets Field. Knowing Rickey's puritanism, many a sportswriter flatly forecast the lumps...