Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dean Ford returned to full time duty as Dean of the Faculty. He attended a Faculty meeting devoted mainly to normal academic matters. One extraordinary resolution--a definition of "permissible behavior for members of the academic community," proposed by Alex Inkeles and Samuel Huntington--was scheduled for discussion. But Huntington and Inkeles withdrew the motion, saying they would bring it up again at a special Faculty meeting in June...
...long as that consensus endured, he said. "we didn't have to think very much about what was good or bad behavior. We protected property because we had it or hoped to have it; we joined the army because the policies of our elected officials were more or less our policies...
...much sexual freedom as boys. "The impact of the pill has been decisive indeed," Harris notes. He adds: "There is little doubt that America has come a long way toward both recognizing sexual practices in something less than forbidden terms and in acknowledging the growing liberality of sex behavior, especially among the young...
...twelve-year-olds, padded bras for eleven-year-olds, and going steady for an ever younger age are adults to whom the clumsiness of children looks cute." He is against marijuana, at least until harsh legal penalties are relaxed, and urges parents to suggest moderate alternatives when teenage behavior is likely to hurt others. He approvingly quotes a father who told his son: "If you feel high, ask your date to drive or call a cab. We can get your car back in the morning." Ginott does not flatly condemn premarital intercourse, but simply pleads that parents provide their children...
Fortunately or unfortunately, human beings, perhaps especially human beings in universities, do not live together in strict accord with general principles. Instead they work out, from case to case, a set of often unspoken agreements and working rules to govern their own behavior and settle conflicts. This process began at Harvard as early as the McNamara episode. Whether it can continue is uncertain because the moral conflict is indeed an intense one. There are, I suggest, two closely related prerequisites for any accommodation that may still make possible serious intellectual work. One would be a shift in emphasis among...