Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...With native-born fascists included, the fifth column numbers more than a million. The main task of cleaning it out is a job for the FBI; laymen can take little direct action beyond reporting suspicious behavior to the Government. But every citizen can contribute to a change in the national atmosphere-"not of lethargy, not of fear, not of defeat, but invigorated by the defiant faith which we have known in the past as typically American...
...Frustrated Flyer Donald Blood, 14, was let off with one-year probation; now staying close to home, he will start high school this fall. His buddy Benny Byrne, 15, is staying indeterminately in a correctional institution, pending release for good behavior. Reason: he previously snitched a camera lens and some radio parts, thinking they would come in handy when he got to be a war aviator...
...town to act like brutal soldiery on their night off. In northern New York, where 82,000 are in camp, saloons were not well attended. Most soldiers headed for soda fountains, fought their way through such concoctions as "General Drum Specials" (marshmallow sundaes) and "First Army Maneuvers Splits." This behavior was too much for an old Army sergeant, who groused to the New York Times: "Yes, and they all carry miniature cameras...
...Critic Brooks described their significance: "As heirs of the Revolution, they spoke for the liberal world-community. As men who loved the land and rural customs, they shared the popular life in its roots, at its source. As readers and students of the classics, they followed great patterns of behavior, those that Europeans followed also. In short, as magnanimous men, well seasoned, they wrote with a certain authority and not as the scribes. If they believed in progress and felt that America led the way, they professed their faith in a fashion that commanded respect, for they had known doubts...
...Mary Lamb threw a fork at a domestic, missed the girl, but harpooned her feeble-minded father. Then she killed her mother with a carving knife. Such behavior was considered extraordinary even in literary circles that included Cole ridge, Godwin, Hazlitt, Leigh Hunt and De Quincey. While friends hushed up the tragic affair, Mary Lamb was sent away to a private asylum (Charles had already passed six weeks in the Hoxton mad house). Coleridge wrote her letters of metaphysical commiseration, which baffled Charles and may have enraged Mary. One day after her release she was quietly talking to Coleridge. Suddenly...