Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...dubious success of our own education seems to me to call for great humility. . . . That raises the question of the extent to which mass political behavior is influenced by education. We have to ask ourselves how Germans became Nazis in the first place. The millions of youth who pushed Hitler to power were not taught Hitlerism in their schools and universities. . . . The fact is that what students were taught in their schools did not conform to the reality which they saw in life. . . . Democracy failed to provide . . . a satisfactory social and economic existence. . . . Hitler merely canalized the almost universal discontent...
...becoming extinct, is "our most rapidly growing minority." Indians in the U.S. and Alaska number 394,280, are increasing at the rate of "1% a year compared with 0.7% for the whole population." "It was with the Indian that our patterns of 'color reaction' and 'color behavior' were first conditioned" and became so set that Americans rarely consider that "a large part of [our] race psychology" derives from their ancestors' experiences with Indians on the ever-shifting frontier...
...months past, rumors of military misdoings had been piling up around Selfridge Field, Mich. Griping and gossip centered on ugly stories of unsoldierly behavior, favoritism, trading in promotions and bombproof jobs. Then came the most fantastic rumor of all: that the commander of the field, a full colonel, had been arrested for shooting a Negro private...
Chief Justice Gwyer's decision made the behavior of the British Raj in the past nine months look not quite Marquess of Queensberry. But it brought no change in the status of the arrested Congress leaders...
This year the Count's behavior has improved. So far he has had no romantic notions-as he did in last fall's Belmont Futurity when he took a shine to a filly named Askmenow and refused to pass her in the stretch. But he still refuses to be bullied. He makes his own decisions during a race, diving into narrow openings that would stump a less self-possessed, less determined horse. Each race he takes in stride, even eats an enormous meal immediately afterward - a rarity for a highstrung thoroughbred...