Word: behaviorism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play is intended as a parable, a fable, perhaps, of man trying to escape death, fearing it, moving always ahead of it in panic: foolish as he tries to escape, even more foolish as he tries to rationalize his behavior ultimately pathetic as he tries to brave it out, knowing there...
...received reports from the city's Negro districts of increased courtesy and assistance by policemen. "I don't think there's any question that some change toward understanding is taking place," he says. "And with understanding comes a change in attitude, and then a change in behavior...
Another Harvard psychiatrist expressed concern last week about another form of student behavior. Speaking to the Maternity Center Association in Manhattan, Dr. Graham B. Blaine Jr. said that illegitimate births in the U.S. have tripled in the past 25 years. He placed a major share of the blame on college officials who, by allowing men and women to visit each other in dorms, have encouraged intimacy both on and off campus, and "are actually giving tacit consent to premarital sex." This "puts an unhealthy degree of pressure on those who wish to curb their natural impulses," he said. But Blaine...
...prize-wmning Soviet theoretical physicist, whose tenacity to life after an auto accident in Moscow six years ago astonished the medical world; of unspecified causes related to the accident; in Moscow. At the time the fourth Russian to win a Nobel prize in physics (for his theories on :he behavior of matter at low temperatures), "Dau" also helped his country develop nuclear weapons and contributed to the Soviet space program. In 1962, his car plowed into a truck, leaving him with such severe injuries that he was in a coma for 57 days and clinically dead on four occasions. Eventually...
KUBRICK'S dilemma in terms of satisfying an audience is that his best work in 2001 is plotless slow-paced material, an always successful creation of often ritualistic behavior of apes, men, and machines with whom we are totally unfamiliar. In the longer version, the opening of Astronaut Poole's (Gary Lockwood) pod scene is shot identically to the preceding pod scene with Astronaut Bowman (Keir Dullea), stressing standardized operational method by duplicating camera setups. This laborious preparation may appear initially repetitive until Poole's computer-controlled pod turns on him and murders him in space, thus justifying the prior...