Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...more Arnold Gesell studies children, the more complicated he finds them. Probably the world's best-informed expert on child behavior, he has examined thousands, with cameras and his solemn eye, in his Clinic of Child Development, which he founded at Yale in 1911. It has taken him 19 books to publish his findings. Last week Dr. Gesell turned out his 20th, The First Five Years of Life (Harper...
...Biscuit Eater (Paramount). A biscuit eater is a retriever who instead of fetching back game for his master to eat, eats it himself. This unsporting behavior puts the cur outside the pale. Few sportsmen will credit this sentimental tale in which the "love and patience" of two boys turn a born biscuit eater into a total abstainer and top-notch bird dog. But nearly everybody will enjoy the performances of the biscuit cater (Promise), the colored boy (Cordell Hickman), the white boy (Billy Lee) and the field trials filmed in Albany...
...Royal Society, was established to study the many varieties of finches found on these islands, and nowhere else. The birds had been studied by Darwin, and other scientists, to determine whether they were prehistoric types, or merely unusual hybrids. This expedition, after making a detailed study of the behavior of the birds, concluded that they were an entirely separate species...
...place where a series of rocket-machines once fictionally landed, loosing battalions of huge extra-terrestrial monsters. For those interested in 1) owning a copy of the celebrated script (with indicated sound effects); 2) enjoying a learned laugh over the things it made people do; 3) studying U. S. behavior when a panic is on, The Invasion from Mars,* provides a lively, sympathetic anatomizing of the Wells-Welles ruckus by Psychologist Hadley Cantril and a special staff of Princeton's Radio Research Project...
...Russia's Ambassador to Great Britain, amiable little Ivan Mikhailovich Maisky, trotted around to No. 9 Downing Street one day last week to reiterate the Soviet Union's first concrete complaint against British war behavior. On Jan. 13, British warships off Formosa stopped the Red freighter Selenga, en route from a Chinese port to Vladivostok with a cargo of tin, antimony and wolframite (tungsten ore). They took the Selenga clear to Hong Kong for examination, on the suspicion that the metals were destined for Germany via the Trans-Siberian Railway. Last week the Selenga and her cargo were...