Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is merely a way of dodging the hard facts of U.S. responsibility and interest in Greece. Sober American observers feel it makes little sense to expect good democratic behavior from a nation which has never had a fair chance to give democracy...
...says in my copy of TIME that Jacques Maritain, at the M.I.T. convocation, looked for "the basis for a moral order in a process of reason about the essences of God, man, and things [TIME, April 11]," while Walter Stace looked to "the psychological laws of human behavior"-and yet that Stace is the "wooly-minded...
...love with 18-year-old Ellen Ternan (who didn't love him, says Author Pearson, but "placed comfort before chastity"), he had little compunction about booting his wife out of the house, retaining custody of most of the children and giving a thoroughly dishonest version of his behavior to the newspapers. He aroused millions to compassion for "fallen women," but once, hearing a young girl swear obscenely on the street, he had her marched straight off to jail. It was this inability to see life (or himself) in consistent proportions that was his strength and weakness; it made...
Berliners noted that, despite high-level peace parleys, the local Russians were being their usual selves. But experts in Russian behavior professed to detect a slight softening around the edges...
...Those of a "factual" inclination, therefore, have every right to suspect that they may be unhappy in any science. We do suggest, however, that even at our present relatively primitive level of theoretical development, our work is of some value to those interested in understanding important areas of behavior. Norman Birnbaum Michael Olmsted Teaching Fellows in Social Relations